Brazilian Rural and Urban Poverty from the Views of Privations: An Regional Analysis From Household Data From 2005 to 2019

Abstract

The Capability Approach has become one of the main theoretical bases to fundamental an alternative view of poverty, looking at the deprivations that inhibit human development. Using the Capabilities Approach as a reference, the present work aims to analyze the behavior of poverty, in the Brazilian macro-regions, in the years 2005 and 2015. For this, the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) for rural and urban spaces is calculated and Logit Models are estimated to capture categorical effects of poverty on these spaces. The results point to a fall in multidimensional poverty in all macro-regions, however, with different dynamics between income and multidimensional poverty and specific patterns between regions and rural and urban spaces. It is perceived that, when analyzed by different deprivations, the probability of being poor remains persistent and, in a way, more intense, in the most vulnerable areas of the country, in particular, affecting the population of rural areas in the North and Northeast of Brazil.