Aspectos qualitativos da pobreza no Rio Grande do Sul
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Flavio Comim
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Izete Pengo Bagolin
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- Keywords:
- Pobreza, Indicadores sociais
- Abstract
- The main aim of this paper is to introduce a multidimensional approach to poverty assessment. The paper examines the principal limitations of traditional ways of measuring poverty which emphasise the income dimension. It presents the capability approach as a robust and comprehensive alternative to poverty assessment. The paper builds upon the reality and data of RIo Grande do Sul. It concludes that income poverty is higher in rural spaces, that it affects mostly women and that its measurement is not robust depending on particular poverty lines used. The paper also reports evidence that income poverty is related to the sort of activity and working conditions to which the poorest are subjected. Poverty in Rio Grande do Sul is also characterized by people's lack of access to justice. Its income dimension is weakly correlated to sanitation and children mortality statistics.
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- Vol. 23 (2002)
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- Artigos
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