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Abstract

Income and poverty: the effects of the Real Plan. The Real Plan success in laming inflation arose the interest in its effect on absolute poverty, that is, on the population whose per capita household income is situated below the estimated minimum for meeting basic needs. Considering that, until mid-1996, household income data for the period after the plan were not available, our choice was to use micro-data from the Employment Monthly Survey (PME/IBGE) as basic source. For this reason the first section discusses methodological questions related to deriving poverty indicators from the PME and from the Annual Household survey (PNAD/IBGE) for 1990. Then, for the Real Plan period and using PME data only, poverty indicators where obtain for four different months and for six metropolitan regions investigated in the survey. Despite differences among the metropolises in what concerns poverty incidence levels and the evolution of poverty, there is evidence of a consistent reduction in the proportions of poor and some increase of the income gap ratios. Nevertheless, the indicator which encompasses the three aspects of poverty shows an inequivocal improvement during the period.