Abstract

This study aims to analyze the effects of multidimensional well-being growth on
poverty and inequality in Brazil over the periods of 2004-2008 and 2016-2019. Empirically,
the methodologies of Kakwani and Pernia (2000), Kakwani, Khandker, and Son (2004),
and Shapley’s decomposition are used. The results have demonstrated that a decrease in
multidimensional poverty happened between 2004 and 2008, and an increase happened
between 2016 and -2019. The growth in multidimensional well-being in the second period
has been anti-poor. With the decomposition, it was found that while multidimensional wellbeing
growth contributed to poverty reduction between 2004 and2008, between 2016 and
2019 the concentration contributed to an increase in poverty.

JEL Classification: I31; I32; O11; P46.