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Estimating a Poverty Line for Brazil Based on the 2017-18 Household Budget Survey

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  • Lara Ibarra,Gabriel
  • Paffhausen,Anna Luisa
  • Vasconcellos Archer Duque,Daniel

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This study applies the cost-of-basic-needs approach to estimate food and totalpoverty lines for the Brazilian case. Using detailed data on expenditures from a 2017/18 household budget survey andcaloric information from the Brazilian Table of Food Composition, calorie intake is assigned to more than 1,400items to estimate the cost per calorie for a representative group of the population. The preferred results estimate thevalue of the food poverty line at R$258 (in 2018 urban Southeast prices), and the lower total poverty line(covering also nonfood necessities) at R$455. Robustness checks show that varying the assumptions leads toqualitatively similar results. The findings are also close in value to lines found in earlier studies and the societalpoverty line. Finally, this work provides a data-driven validation of the income threshold used to determineeligibility for Brazil’s social registry.

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  • Lara Ibarra,Gabriel & Paffhausen,Anna Luisa & Vasconcellos Archer Duque,Daniel, 2021. "Estimating a Poverty Line for Brazil Based on the 2017-18 Household Budget Survey," Policy Research Working Paper Series 9878, The World Bank.
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