ABSTRACT
Analisa a questão da pobreza. Discorre sobre a proposta de criação do Fundo de Combate à pobreza. Apresenta os delineamentos gerais da iniciativa. Aborda questões de caráter estratégico. Insere o combate à pobreza no contexto mais amplo da política econômica. Apresenta três experiências concretas de redução da pobreza. Encaminha sugestões concretas e objetivas para remediar o problema. Examina a questão da segurança pública em seus componentes principais. Dá ênfase à formulação de política nacional para essa área atenta à garantia dos direitos humanos e ao combate à violência, ao crime organizado e ao narcotráfico, em especial nas grandes cidades.
Subject(s)
Humans , Male , Female , Policy Making , Poverty , Safety , Brazil , Crime , Economics , Equity , Human Rights , Police , Public Policy , Social Conditions , Social Justice , ViolenceABSTRACT
Discuss the structural and macroeconomic determinants of poverty in the recent Brazilian experience. Looks at the evolution of the structural determinants of poverty in Brazil during the last two decades. The main lesson here is that inequality reduction is a fundamental component of poverty alleviation policies. Describes the evolution of poverty, inequality and macroeconomic developments in Brazil and develops an aggregate monthly time series analysis of the determinants of poverty in the 1980-96 period. This analysis showed that higher inflation and higher unemployment imply lower per capita earnings for all deciles. The direct effects of inflation on per capita family earnings were somewhat milder and decreases as we move to the upper tail of the distribution. Poverty tend to be more adversely affected by higher inflation rates than mean incomes. Similarly, the unemployment elasticity of per capita earnings decreases as we move towards the upper tail of the distribution.