Has recent economic growth/recession in Brazil been pro-poor?

ABSTRACT

This paper evaluates whether recent economic growth/recession in Brazil was pro-poor during the period of 2006–2016 and compares the boom and recession periods. The results show that in boom periods, the growth in Brazil is pro-poor but not pro-ultrapoor. While the recession is anti-poor especially anti-ultrapoor and such worsened inequality dominates the increasing trend of poverty in Brazil.

KEYWORDS:

• Pro-poor growth
• poverty
• inequality
• Brazil

JEL CLASSIFICATION:

• D31
• D63

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Additional information

Funding

This work was supported by the National Social Science Fund of China [16CGL043].