Pobreza multidimensional: uma aplicação à região norte do Brasil

Abstract

The objective of this study is to analyze poverty in the North of Brazil in 2000 and ). This exercise is important to understand poverty in the NR, mainly because the region is marked by peculiarities that differentiates it from other regions of Brazil and also because it is considered by the IFDM as the most backward region of the country. In addition, SEN (2000) argues that poverty cannot be measured by a single factor; it is a phenomenon that has many dimensions. The MHPI-NR is based on the HPI published in 1997 by UNDP. It was also measured by a one-dimensional poverty index (P0), which only considers the income of the people, to make a comparison between the two indexes and check the differences between them. The results show that different ways of looking at poverty produce different diagnoses, having a low incidence of income poverty does not mean, exactly, having a low incidence of human poverty, and vice versa. Human poverty is more homogeneous than income poverty. Also a high reduction in P0, that is, an increase of income of the population, was not reflected in a reduction in the same proportion in the MHPI-NR, which measures the quality of life of the population.2010 with the construction of a multidimensional index, the Municipal Human Poverty Index of the Northern Region (MHPI-NR