Poverty in Brazil - What role do racial differences play?

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Master's Thesis from the year 2005 in the subject Business economics - Miscellaneous, grade: A-, University of Sussex, language: English, abstract: The thesis examines the role of race in explaining Brazilian poverty and also analyses the correlates of poverty in Brazil in 2002. It thus provides an actual poverty profile of the Brazilian population with focus on its racial dimension. The thesis is based on large cross-sectional household survey data, the Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios (PNAD) data sets, and applies best practice techniques of distributional analysis to micro-data.

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