Estimating a Poverty Line for Brazil based on the 2017/18 Household Budget Survey
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23524345 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gabriel Lara Ibarra (0000-0003-4260-4999), Anna Luisa Paffhausen, Daniel Duque (0000-0001-7090-1224) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Publication date | 2021-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Publisher | World Bank, Washington, DC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1596/1813-9450-9878 |
| OpenAlex | W4206808582 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 10 |
This study applies the \n cost-of-basic-needs approach to estimate food and total \n poverty lines for the Brazilian case. Using detailed data on \n expenditures from a 2017/18 household budget survey and \n caloric information from the Brazilian Table of Food \n Composition, calorie intake is assigned to more than 1,400 \n items to estimate the cost per calorie for a representative \n group of the population. The preferred results estimate the \n value of the food poverty line at R$258 (in 2018 urban \n Southeast prices), and the lower total poverty line \n (covering also nonfood necessities) at R$455. Robustness \n checks show that varying the assumptions leads to \n qualitatively similar results. The findings are also close \n in value to lines found in earlier studies and the societal \n poverty line. Finally, this work provides a data-driven \n validation of the income threshold used to determine \n eligibility for Brazil’s social registry.
Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Line (geometry) · Poverty · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Mathematics · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Social and Economic Development in India
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
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| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |