Parsing the Urban Poverty Puzzle: A Multi-generational Panel Study in Rio de Janeiro鈥檚 Favelas, 1968鈥�2009
Abstract
This paper describes the methodology of a longitudinal multi-generational study in the favelas (shantytowns) of Rio de Janeiro from 1968 to 2008. Major political transformations took place in Brazil during this interval: from dictatorship to 鈥榦pening鈥� to democracy; major economic transformations from 鈥榤iracle鈥� boom to hyperinflation and crisis, and to relative stability; and major policy changes from the removal of favelas to their upgrading and integration. However, despite the cumulative effects of these contextual changes, poverty programmes and community efforts, the favela population has continued to grow faster than the rest of the city and the number and size of the favelas has consistently increased over these decades.
Citation
Perlman, J.E. Parsing the Urban Poverty Puzzle: A Multi-generational Panel Study in Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas, 1968–2009. UNU-WIDER, Helsinki, Finland (2010) 21 pp. ISBN 978-92-9230-262-7 [WIDER Working Paper No. 2010/27]