Rural Poverty Alleviation in Brazil : Towards an Integrated Strategy, Volume 1. Policy Summary

This report finalized in March 2001 constitutes a step toward the objective of designing an integrated strategy for rural poverty reduction in Brazil, The report contains an updated and more detailed profile of the rural poor in the northeast (NE) and southeast (SE) of Brazil; identifies key determinants of rural poverty in these regions; and proposes a five-pronged strategic framework in which to couch a set of integrated policies that could effectively help to reduce rural poverty in Brazil. This tentative set of policy options was identified via an analysis of rural poverty determinants complemented with an evaluation of relevant current public programs and six in-depth thematic studies that bear on critical components of the proposed integrated policy approach aimed at reducing rural poverty in the NE and SE of Brazil: 1) the dynamics of the Brazilian small farm sector, 2) rural labor markets, 3) rural land markets, 4) rural non-farm employment, 5) rural education, and 6) rural pensions. While this study emphasizes primarily microeconomic events--such as the impact of schooling, income transfers, and access to land and credit--poverty reduction requires both economic growth (macro-level) and specific anti-poverty policies (micro-level).

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	World Bank
Format:	Pre-2003 Economic or Sector Report biblioteca
Language:	English en_US
Published:	Washington, DC 2001-12-27
Subjects:	ACCESS TO SERVICES, AGRICULTURAL EMPLOYMENT, AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION, AGRICULTURAL SECTOR, ANALYTICAL WORK, AVERAGE AGE, CREDIT CONSTRAINTS, CREDIT PROGRAMS, CURRENCY UNIT, DATA AVAILABILITY, DATA SET, DATA SETS, DEMOGRAPHICS, DOMESTIC DEMAND, ECONOMIC GROWTH, ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT, ECONOMIC VALUE, EDUCATION PROGRAMS, EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS, EXCHANGE RATE, EXPENDITURES, EXTREME POVERTY, FARM ACTIVITIES, FARM HOUSEHOLDS, FARM INCOME, FARMING HOUSEHOLDS, FARMS, FEMALE-HEADED HOUSEHOLDS, HEADCOUNT INDEX, HEALTH CARE, HOUSEHOLD CHARACTERISTICS, HOUSEHOLD INCOME, HOUSEHOLD LEVEL, HOUSEHOLD SIZE, HOUSEHOLD SURVEY, HUMAN CAPITAL, INCOME COUNTRIES, INCOME QUINTILES, INCOME TRANSFERS, LABOR MARKETS, LABOR PRODUCTIVITY, LAND REFORM, LEGISLATION, LIVING CONDITIONS, LIVING STANDARD, MINIMUM WAGE, NON-FARM EMPLOYMENT, PENSION SYSTEM, POLICY FRAMEWORK, POLICY LEVEL, POLICY OPTIONS, POOR HOUSEHOLDS, POOR LIVING, POOR PEOPLE, POVERTY ALLEVIATION, POVERTY ANALYSIS, POVERTY HEADCOUNT, POVERTY INCREASE, POVERTY LINE, POVERTY MEASURES, POVERTY POLICIES, POVERTY PROFILE, POVERTY REDUCTION, POVERTY REDUCTION POLICIES, POVERTY REDUCTION POLICY, POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY, PRIMARY EDUCATION, PRIVATE SECTOR WORKERS, PRODUCERS, PRODUCTIVITY, PUBLIC GOODS, PUBLIC POLICIES, PUBLIC POLICY, REAL WAGES, RURAL AREAS, RURAL EMPLOYMENT, RURAL HOUSEHOLDS, RURAL POOR, RURAL POPULATION, RURAL POVERTY, SAFETY NET, SAFETY NET PROGRAMS, SAFETY NETS, SOCIAL CAPITAL, SOCIAL PROTECTION, SOCIAL SAFETY NETS, TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, TRADE LIBERALIZATION, TRANSACTION COSTS, TRANSFER PROGRAMS, URBAN AREAS, URBAN POPULATION, URBAN POVERTY, WAGE DIFFERENTIALS, WELFARE INDICATORS RURAL POVERTY, POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGIES, STRATEGIC PLANNING, COMMERCIAL AGRICULTURE, NONFARM SELF-EMPLOYMENT, LAND MARKETS, MIGRATIONS, RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT, TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER, LABOR CODES, HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS, SMALL FARMS, PROPERTY RIGHTS, EXCHANGE RATES, DEVALUATION, RURAL EDUCATION,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/12/1764488/brazil-rural-poverty-alleviation-brazil-towards-integrated-strategy-vol-1-2-policy-summary http://hdl.handle.net/10986/15409
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