Faces e interfaces da pobreza e do desenvolvimento : uma análise para a cidade de Montes Claros (MG)

Abstract

This work presents a study about faces and interfaces of poverty and development. In particular, analyze aspects of poverty and development of the city of Montes Claros (MG) and, in general, are the people in situation of poverty in this county. Taking into consideration that poverty conceit assumes distinct forms, which represents more than a state of lack, but also a phenomenon that avoid people practicing their liberty, get into debate in this study the definition about poverty under two aspects: unidimensional poverty and multidimensional poverty. Still relates poverty to vulnerability and makes a distinction between poverty and exclusion. Get into a view the development and its association to poverty; cause understands that in a view about poverty it is important to consider this phenomenon on a wider way that only low income, the development not only as economic. Besides, believe that one of the biggest challenges for fighting the poverty is the debate between economic development and social development. Therein, debate some approach about economic development and social development. To get ahead in this debate, treat about unlikeness, seeing that these represent an obstacle to social development to limit, to reduce, the involvement of poor people to the access at better living condition. Poverty in this study is approached specifically in its urban factor, understanding that each time more forms of regulation, fight and confrontation are fetched in the process of building the urban citizenship. Therefore, starts the debate of poverty in Latin America, in particular, the models of Brazilian economy development that contributed for the ways of poverty in Brazil, the contemporaneous programs of fighting poverty, in special, ‘Bolsa Família’ Program. Finally, characterize poverty from micro region of Montes Claros (MG) and in special the city of Montes Claros by means of poverty rate unidimensional and multidimensional, considering unsteady as income, social equipments, unemployment rate, violence rate, scholarship rate. In a second moment, from this empiric research quantitative-qualitative, identify some of these poor people who live in the city of Montes Claros (MG), detaching some limitation regarding to substantial and instrumental liberties that in general suffer and raise difficulties the expansion of several capacities.