Indicadores de exclusão social e mitigação de pobreza no Ceará

Abstract

This study analyzes the evolution of social exclusion indicators in Ceará State, Brazil, and the strategies adopted by the State government that aim to alleviate poverty that exist in that State between 1992 and 2007. The study uses as a way of measuring poverty the Social Exclusion Index (IES) developed by Lemos (2008), throughout the analysis of indicators of deprivation that compose it. Secondary data collected from the IBGE, used in the structuring of the PNAD, in the period between 1992 and 2007 in order to show the evolution of these indicators. The study also shows the implemented policies in Ceará to mitigate poverty in a structural nature and policies of income transfer. By analysis the results showed by IES during the period 1992 to 2007, he saw that it has a downward trend (from 56.15% in 1992 to 38% in 2007). Among the indicators of deprivation which are included in the calculation of the IES, the water deprivation and the garbage collecting depravation decreased, while the indicators such as deprivation of income and sanitation still having high values (66.48% and 50.05%, respectively), showing that programs access to water, education and garbage collection should have better effects over reduction of social exclusion in Ceará State.