Rural poverty alleviation in Brazil : toward an integrated strategy

The objective of this report is to design an integrated strategy for rural poverty reduction in Brazil. It contains an updated and detailed profile of the rural poor in the northeast and southeast regions of Brazil; identifies key determinants of rural poverty in these regions; and proposes a five-p...

• Main Author: Valdés, Alberto
• Corporate Author: Banco Mundial
• Other Authors: Mistiaen, Johan A
• Format: Book
• Published: Washington, D.C. World Bank 2003
• Series: A World Bank country study
• Subjects: POBREZA; ZONAS RURALES; ALIVIO DE LA POBREZA; SERVICIOS SOCIALES; BRASIL; ASISTENCIA SOCIAL; MITIGACION DE LA POBREZA; REDUCCION DE LA POBREZA

Table of Contents:

• Abstract
• Preface
• Abbreviations and acronyms
• Executive summary
• Overview
• 1. Poverty profile in Brazil
• 2. Dynamics of the Brazilian small farm sector
• 3. An assessment of rural labor markets in the 1990s
• 4. Land markets and rural poverty alleviation
• 5. Determinants of farm revenues and factor returns for poor farmers in Brazil
• 6. Poverty and non-farm employment in rural Brazil
• 7. Rural education
• 8. Social insurance or social assistance for Brazil's rural poor?
• 9. Public policies to reduce rural poverty a sective assessment
• References
• Appendix.