Social Security and Poverty in the Rural Zone of the Brazilian Northeast (1991-2000)

Authors

  • Rosa Kato
  • Ivan Targino

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to analyze the influence of Social Security in the decrease of the poverty and concentration of income in the rural zone of the Brazilian Northeast. It is in the rural zone of the Northeast of Brazil that ponders the largest number of poor and indigent. The data shows that there is a significant difference in the poverty degree and of misery among the homes with and without retired. The impact of the social security in the family revenue was larger in 2000 than in 1991, because the revenues of the retired ones and pensioners of 2000 suffered a significant
elevation. That verification allows to infer that the existence of politics of income transfer is not enough to cause a significant reduction in the poverty degree. It is necessary that the values of the transfers are significant. The first section presents the methodological approach, while the second analyzes the importance of the social welfare as an instrument of public policy of social security. The third section presents the relations between the social welfare, poverty and income concentration in the rural northeast, emphasizing the impacts of the social welfare on family income and the indicators of inequality, poverty and penury. The last section is dedicated to conclusive notes.

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Published

2009-06-20

How to Cite

Kato, R., & Targino, I. (2009). Social Security and Poverty in the Rural Zone of the Brazilian Northeast (1991-2000). Revista Da ABET, 8(1). Retrieved from https://periodicos.ufpb.br/index.php/abet/article/view/15255