Abstract

LEON SERRANO, Lady; CEVALLOS GAMBOA, Washington  and  QUITO VERA, Álvaro. The influence of poverty on Brazil’s economic growth, period 2000-2014. Retos [online]. 2017, vol.7, n.13, pp.311-326. ISSN 1390-8618.  https://doi.org/10.17163/ret.n13.2017.10.

Brazil is the seventh major economy of the world and it headed the list of the countries that reduced the poverty in 87 % in the periods 2006-2010, nevertheless the levels of internal brute product were not encouraging. Before these affectations, the present work has as principal aim determine the influence of the poverty in the economic growth and foreign debt of Brazil (period 2000-2014). The applied method is based on models Econometrics of Linear Regression Simple and Multichanged, using information of the Economic Commission for Latin America and The Carib and Department of Finance of Brazil. The results of the Linear Simple Model affirm a strong inverse correlation of poverty with unemployment and foreign debt measured by the coefficient of determination in 0.4533 and 0.7808 respectively that it represents to be acceptable for the model and a weak relation with internal brute product and inflation. The application of the Multivariate Model demonstrates an excellent adjustment of explanation of the independent variables and poverty with a statistical level F equally to 17.64. The results determine that the percentages of internal brute product and inflation do not affect in the levels of poverty, the economic growth is not affected mainly, whereas the changes in the external debt and rate of unemployment concern the poverty.

Keywords : Poverty; Inflation; Economic growth; External Debt; Unemployment; Gross national product.

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