Spatial analysis of municipal poverty in Ceará State, 1991-2000

Authors

  • Tulio Chiarini UFRGS

    DOI:

    https://doi.org/10.5380/re.v34i2.7913

    Keywords:

    Ceará poverty maps, Human poverty index, spatial analysis, Mapas de pobreza do Ceará, Índice de Pobreza Humana, Análise espacial

    Abstract

    There has been a lot of debate on the space distribution of poverty. disaggregated the map, the better the evidence of poverty; aggregated national-level poverty data may obscure regional variation and can bias public policies to fight poverty. Ceará State has its poverty (measured by the headcount index and by the human poverty index) distributed in a heterogeneous way throughout its territory, which is corroborated by the maps of poverty displayed in this paper. The hypotheses that there is a cluster of misery in Ceara State and that some towns went through a contagious diffusion between 1991 and 2000 are confirmed when using the data supplied by IPEADATA for the years 1991 and 2000. The corroboration was possible thank to the use of spatial econometrics tools.

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    Published

    2008-09-18

    How to Cite

    Chiarini, T. (2008). Spatial analysis of municipal poverty in Ceará State, 1991-2000. Revista De Economia, 34(2). https://doi.org/10.5380/re.v34i2.7913

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    Vol. 34 No. 2 (2008)

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    Artigos

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