A POBREZA MULTIDIMENSIONAL NO ESTADO DA BAHIA DIMINUIU? EVIDÊNCIAS A PARTIR DA ABORDAGEM DE BOURGUIGNON E CHAKRAVARTY

HAS MULTIDIMENSIONAL POVERTY IN THE STATE OF BAHIA DECREASED? EVIDENCES BASED ON BOURGUIGNON AND CHAKRAVARTY'S APPROACH

ABSTRACT

Most analysis of the poverty phenomenon have given special focus to their one-dimensional structure, which is defined as insufficient income of individuals. However, more recently many researchers have addressed the multidimensional poverty perspective, taking into consideration other aspects in addition to income. With that respect, this article aims to investigate the multidimensional poverty in the state of Bahia in the period between 2006 and 2013. To this end, a recent methodology proposed by Bourguignon and Chakravarty (2003) has been employed, based on the basic needs approach and the theory of training. For the sake of calculating the size deprivation indicators, related gaps and multidimensional poverty rates, we used data from the National Survey by Household Sampling (PNAD/IBGE) .The results show that multidimensional poverty has decrease by 4.41% in the state of Bahia, while in rural and urban areas, the proportion of poor declined by 5.61% and 4.39% respectively. On the other hand, when it comes to the groups that make up the analysis, poverty reduction for males and females was relatively fair. However, it can highlight significant retraction of the children related indicator in 5.47% in the period analyzed.

KEYWORDS:
multidimensional poverty; privation; rural area; state of Bahia; Brazil.