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Rural Development and Poverty Alleviation in Northeast Brazil

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Author(s)
Coirolo, Luis
Barbosa, Tulio
Keywords
PRODUCTIVE RESOURCES
LEADERSHIP
DECISION-MAKING
PARTICIPATORY PROCESS
CIVIL SOCIETY
COUNCILS
POOR COMMUNITIES
REPRESENTATIVES
CROPPING
DECISION-MAKERS
BUREAUCRACY
COMMUNITIES
DROUGHT
PRODUCTIVITY
MUNICIPALITY
RURAL DEVELOPMENT
COTTON
BASIC FOODS
COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION
INCOME
TRANSPARENCY
FISCAL
SHARECROPPERS
RURAL POVERTY
FARMERS
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
FISCAL RESOURCES
WASTE
TENANTS
FINANCIAL SYSTEM
MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT
LIFTING
CLIMATE
POVERTY ALLEVIATION
LIVING CONDITIONS
POLITICAL INTERFERENCE
FAMILIES
SOCIAL CAPITAL
COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION BENEFICIARY PARTICIPATION
SOCIETY
COMMUNITY MEMBERS
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
COST SAVINGS
RURAL AREAS
CASHEWNUTS
COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS
VOTING
RESOURCE ALLOCATION
CONSTITUTION
COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS
RURAL COMMUNITIES
LESSONS LEARNED
EXECUTION
PROCUREMENT
LOCAL GOVERNMENTS
LABORERS
CASH CROPS
LOCAL ACCOUNTABILITY
DECENTRALIZATION
CONSENSUS
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/337313
Online Access
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10402
Abstract
The Northeast region of Brazil has long
 been the single largest pocket of rural poverty in Latin
 America. With a combined area of 1.6 million square
 kilometers-16 percent of Brazil's total-the Northeast
 is home to 45 million people, 28 percent of Brazil's
 total population , of whom 5.4 million people live on about
 $1 a day and a total of 10.7 million on $1.60 or less per
 day. Nearly half of all rural communities are in the
 interior, semi-arid zone characterized by poor soil and
 severe, frequent drought. The rural poor are small farmers,
 tenants, sharecroppers and landless laborers. They face an
 uncertain climate and fluctuating markets. Their access to
 land is skewed and there is almost no rural financial system
 for their needs. They rely on subsistence cropping of basic
 foods, smallscale animal husbandry, some cash crops (mainly
 cotton and cashew), casual agricultural and non-agricultural
 work, pensions, and remittances from family members living
 in the cities.
Date
2002-10
Type
Publications & Research
Identifier
oai:openknowledge.worldbank.org:10986/10402
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10402
Copyright/License
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