Poverty in the Brazilian Amazon
An Assessment of Poverty Focused on the State of Pará
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23545992 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dorte Verner |
| Year | 2004 |
| Publication date | 2004-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Publisher | World Bank, Washington, D.C. (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1596/1813-9450-3357 |
| OpenAlex | W1583274833 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
The states in the Brazilian Amazon have \n made progress in reducing poverty and improving social \n indicators in the last decade. Despite this progress, the \n poverty rate in the Amazon is among the highest in Brazil. \n As of 2000, rural poverty is the greatest challenge. In \n Par?, not only is the headcount poverty rate of 58.4 percent \n in rural areas more than 55 percent higher than headcount \n poverty in urban areas, but also poverty is much deeper in \n rural areas. The fall in infant mortality and adult \n illiteracy corroborate the improvement in measured income \n poverty. Census data from 2000 and 1991 reveal that more \n people left Par? than came to live in the state during the \n 1970s, the opposite of the 1980s. In 2000, the Gini \n coefficient for Par?, as in the Amazon as a whole, was 0.60. \n The poverty profile reveals that indigenous peoples \n experience a higher poverty incidence than other groups. \n Census 2000 data reveal that living in rural areas in Par? \n does not by itself affect the probability of being poor. \n Individual and household characteristics are more important \n than geographical location. The largest statistical \n differences in poverty reduction between rural and urban \n areas are found in the effect of education, sector of \n employment, gender, and family size. PNAD data from 2001 \n reveal that living in urban areas in Par? does not by itself \n affect the probability of falling below the poverty line in \n urban areas in Brazil. The strongest poverty correlates are \n education, experience, race, rural location, gender, and \n labor market association.
Amazon rainforest · Biology · Development economics · Economics · Geography · Political science · Poverty · Sociology · State (computer science) · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Computer Science · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Law · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
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