Identifying the urban poor in Brazil (English)

This paper investigates the degree to which the use of a single urban poverty threshold in Brazil leads to biased project identification, design, and evaluation. Analysis of the causes of proverty is beyond its scope. Absolute poverty lines are defined through the use of estimates of expenditures for mimimum cost, nutritionally adequate diets and food shares of total expenditures by families with incomes roughly equivalent to the Bank's relative poverty...

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HICKS, J.;

VETTER, D.;
Document Date
1983/04/30
Document Type
Staff Working Paper
Report Number
SWP565
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Brazil,
Region
Latin America and Caribbean,
Disclosure Date
2010/07/12
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
Doc Name
Identifying the urban poor in Brazil
Keywords
minimum salary

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HICKS, J.; VETTER, D..

Identifying the urban poor in Brazil (English). Staff working paper ; no. SWP 565 Washington, D.C. : The World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/874651468230079404

Identifying the urban poor in Brazil (English)

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