Parsing the Urban Poverty Puzzle: A Multi-generational Panel Study in Rio de Janeiro바카라 사이트™s Favelas, 1968바카라 사이트“2009

From:
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Published
1 January 2010
Country:
Brazil
Document Type:
Working Paper
Theme:
Economic Growth
First published:
1 January 2010
Authors:
Perlman, J.E.

Abstract

This paper describes the methodology of a longitudinal multi-generational study in the favelas (shantytowns) of Rio de Janeiro from 1968 to 2008. Major political transformations took place in Brazil during this interval: from dictatorship to 바카라 사이트˜opening바카라 사이트™ to democracy; major economic transformations from 바카라 사이트˜miracle바카라 사이트™ boom to hyperinflation and crisis, and to relative stability; and major policy changes from the removal of favelas to their upgrading and integration. However, despite the cumulative effects of these contextual changes, poverty programmes and community efforts, the favela population has continued to grow faster than the rest of the city and the number and size of the favelas has consistently increased over these decades.

Citation

Perlman, J.E. Parsing the Urban Poverty Puzzle: A Multi-generational Panel Study in Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas, 1968–2009. UNU-WIDER, Helsinki, Finland (2010) 21 pp. ISBN 978-92-9230-262-7 [WIDER Working Paper No. 2010/27]

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