METROPOLITAN POVERTY IN BRAZIL - ECONOMIC CYCLES, LABOR-MARKET AND DEMOGRAPHIC-TRENDS

Time and locally specific poverty lines for Brazilian metropolitan are as, which concentrate a third of the country's population, are used he re to examine the proportion of poor along the short-term cycles typic al of economic evolution in the 1980s. Although the sensibility of pov erty to the cycle is high, its long-term effect was neutral in terms o f incidence of poverty from the income point of view, but clearly adve rse when labour market indicators were considered. National Household Sampling Survey data combined with poverty lines allowed for the const ruction of labour indicators both for poor and nonpoor subpopulations, which provide clues to understanding income-earning strategies under changing economic and demographic conditions.