Fatores determinantes da pobreza rural após o plano real no estado do Ceará

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the poverty in the rural areas of the State of Ceará concerning their socioeconomic causes such as education, age, color, gender, main activity of occupation and governmental transfers. Besides, it aims to analyze the characteristics of rural dwellings related to public good access. It is studied the causes of rural poverty in Ceará in order to check possible changes in the poverty level comparing before and after the Real Plan. From the PNAD microdata, obtained from IBGE, the variables that show any association to rural poverty are determined through Logit regression model and the analysis of individual determinants are calculated through marginal contributions. In addition, the descriptive statistics of variables related to poverty causes and public goods access is calculated. We can conclude that the gender, education, retirement payment pension, main job activity and government transfers variables have significant relationship upon to regional poverty, being education and governmental transfers the most important ones. Furthermore, there is an increase in the public good access which induced better quality of life for the rural population of Ceará.