Rural development and poverty alleviation in Northeast Brazil : Desenvolvimento rural e alivio da pobreza no nordeste do Brasil (Portuguese)

The Northeast region of Brazil has long been the single largest pocket of rural poverty in Latin America. With a combined area of 1.6 million square kilometers-16 percent of Brazil's total-the Northeast is home to 45 million people, 28 percent of Brazil's total population , of whom 5.4 million people live on about $1 a day and a total of 10.7 million on $1.60 or less per day. Nearly half of all rural communities are in the interior, semi-arid zone...
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  • Luis Coirolo, and Tulio Barbosa;

  • 2002/10/01

  • Brief

  • 26722

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  • Brazil,

  • Latin America and Caribbean,

  • 2010/07/01

  • Desenvolvimento rural e alivio da pobreza no nordeste do Brasil

  • Rural development

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Luis Coirolo, and Tulio Barbosa.

Rural development and poverty alleviation in Northeast Brazil : Desenvolvimento rural e alivio da pobreza no nordeste do Brasil (Portuguese). En breve ; no. 11 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/607501468742177698

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