The effects of multidimensional well-being growth on poverty and inequality in Brazil over the periods of 2004-2008 and 2016-2019

Vol. 43 No. 2 (2023)

Apr-Jun / 2023
Published May 10, 2023
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Neves, Otavio Junio Faria, and Ana Márcia Rodrigues da Silva. 2023. “The Effects of Multidimensional Well-Being Growth on Poverty and Inequality in Brazil over the Periods of 2004-2008 and 2016-2019”. Brazilian Journal of Political Economy 43 (2):358-79. https://doi.org/10.1590/0101-31572023-3428.

The effects of multidimensional well-being growth on poverty and inequality in Brazil over the periods of 2004-2008 and 2016-2019

Otavio Junio Faria Neves
Doutorando em Demografia na Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp), Campinas-SP, Brasil. Mestre em Economia pela Universidade Federal de Alfenas (UNIFAL), Varginha-MG, Brasil.
Ana Márcia Rodrigues da Silva
Professora do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Economia da Universidade Federal de Alfenas (UNIFAL), Varginha – MG, Brasil.
Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 43 No. 2 (2023), Apr-Jun / 2023, Pages 358-379

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the effects of multidimensional well-being growth on
poverty and inequality in Brazil over the periods of 2004-2008 and 2016-2019. Empirically,
the methodologies of Kakwani and Pernia (2000), Kakwani, Khandker, and Son (2004),
and Shapley’s decomposition are used. The results have demonstrated that a decrease in
multidimensional poverty happened between 2004 and 2008, and an increase happened
between 2016 and -2019. The growth in multidimensional well-being in the second period
has been anti-poor. With the decomposition, it was found that while multidimensional wellbeing
growth contributed to poverty reduction between 2004 and2008, between 2016 and
2019 the concentration contributed to an increase in poverty.

JEL Classification: I31; I32; O11; P46.


Keywords: Well-being multidimensional poverty inequality