Redes (Apr 2014)

ANALYSIS OF PRO-POOR GROWTH AMONG THE MUNICIPAL DISTRICTS OF THE STATE OF CEARÁ - BRAZIL: SPATIAL APPROACH

  • Wellington Ribeiro Justo,
  • Andréa Ferreira da Silva

DOI
https://doi.org/10.17058/redes.v19i1.3822
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 19, no. 1
pp. 276 – 296

Abstract

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This article investigates the for-poor growth among the municipal districts of the State of Ceará in 2003. Initially it explores the recent literature of the theme as well as of the spatial econometric. Soon after it makes the spatial analysis of the variables through maps and in more robust way through the Exploratory Analysis of Given Spatial (AEDE) being used the LISA methodology (Local Indicators of Spatial Association) and the statistics I of Moran. Estimates the elasticity income-poverty and elasticity inequality-poverty. The tests indicated the need to incorporate variables in the estimates that learn the spatial externalities. The results suggest for-poor growth in the municipal districts from Ceará in agreement with results aggregate for the Ceará state appointed in recent literature.

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