What can be learned from the agricultural censuses about rural poverty in Brazil?

Type Conference Paper - Sociedade Brasileira de Economia e Sociologia Rural (SOBER),
Title What can be learned from the agricultural censuses about rural poverty in Brazil?
Author(s)
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2004
Country/State Brazil
URL http://www.sober.org.br/palestra/12/05O273.pdf
Abstract
This section of the paper examines the level of poverty in rural Brazil. The data are drawn from Ferreira and Lanjouw (2001) who conducted one of the most careful recent studiesof rural poverty in Brazil. The authors combine detailed information on expenditures from the1996 living standards measurement survey (PPV) with the national household survey (PNAD)

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