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Abstract
The work develops applications of methodologies for the
estimation of poverty indexes and income distribution in rural areas,
being considered the sample errors of the National Survey for Household
Sampling - PNADs. Are obtained estimates with confidence intervals
for several indicators and for several rural areas of Brazil and stressed
the areas where it was observed significant alterations in the poor
proportion, poverty intensity and income distribution in the period 1995-
2001. The results of the estimates point for the occurrence of significant
and positive variation in the poverty indicators in States of São Paulo,
Pernambuco, Alagoas and significant fall of the same indicators in Ceará,
Rio de Janeiro, Santa Catarina and Goiás. A significant fall was verified
in the same period in the income concentration of the rural areas of
Tocantins, Piauí, Paraíba, rural metropolitan area, rural Northeast area,
rural metropolitan Northeast area and rural metropolitan South area
and in the states of São Paulo, Paraná and Ceará, a significant elevation
of the value of Gini index was verified. With base in calculated values
of poverty elasticities was possible to establish an evaluation of the rural
areas of the country in terms of combat effectiveness to the poverty based
on growth and distributives policies.