Notas sobre a desigualdade social no Bico do Papagaio - Tocantins

Oliveira, Nilton Marques de; Strassburg, Udo

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%T Notas sobre a desigualdade social no Bico do Papagaio - Tocantins
%A Oliveira, Nilton Marques de
%A Strassburg, Udo
%J Revista Desafios
%N 1
%P 130-148
%V 1
%D 2014
%K Capabilities; Public Policy; Parrot's Beak
%@ 2359-3652
%X The main objective of this paper is to characterize poverty and indicators of socioeconomic development of the micro region of the Bico do Papagaio in the State of Tocantins, Brazil, as theoretical referential Capability Approach (CA), from Amartya Sen. The main indicators used were: the birth rate, crude rate infant mortality, the human development index, literacy rate, fertility rate, the Gross Domestic Product - (GDP) per capita. The data were collected in the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), the State of Tocantins and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). The results suggest that the micro region of the Parrot's Beak have evidence of decline in extreme poverty and with a tendency to reduce income inequality. Despite the micro region indicators progress, it has a long way to go to achieve a satisfactory level of human, social and economic development.
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%G pt
%9 Zeitschriftenartikel
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