Pobreza infantil no Brasil: aplicação da metodologia Alkire-Foster de mensuração de pobreza multidimensional

Abstract

This article proposes novel insights on the measurement of early childhood poverty incidence and intensity in Brazil, applying Alkire & Foster (2009, 2011) methodology for multidimensional poverty measurement. Brazil National Demographic Women and Child Health Survey (PNDS) 2006 was used. Since PNDS is connected with worldwide Demographic Health Survey (DHS), the specification proposed by Alkire & Roche (2012) with Bangladesh DHS (BDHS) was used to select dimensions. Despite of data and choice constraints, the benefits of Alkire Foster methodology overcome those adversities due to its robust and intuitive formulation. Measures of intensity of poverty as well as its incidence are calculated for urban and rural strata from Brazil’s five macro region, drafting on rural northeast and urban southeast contrasting poverty profiles