Poverty And Inequality In Brazil Analysis

Tourism, the fourth component of Brazilian economy. Tourism is becoming a major industry in Brazil, it welcomed over six million international tourists during the year of 2014, and the two of the most visited destinations in the country are the capital, Rio de Janeiro by 19.2% of tourists and São Paulo by 38.6%, and a lot of these tourists come from Argentina and the United States. (Brazil statistic, 2016).

The line graph shows the arrival of tourist in Brazil according to index mundi, over the past 18 years, this indicate the minimum value of 1,991,000 in 1995, and reached a maximum value of 5,813,000 in 2013.

The table below shows the increase of tourist in Brasil since 2011 to 2014 according to World Bank data.

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As what we discuss, Brazil is well-developed country, and important agricultural and industrial power. It is one of the strongest economic countries in the world, and the strongest economy in Latin America. It considers the world largest producer of coffee, sugar and soybean. It also has the second largest number of cattle in the world after India, the second largest beef exporter. Ironically, poverty is widespread in some parts of the country and they suffer with economic underdevelopment and below-par standards of living. 21.4% of the population lives below the poverty line, around 4.2% of the population being below the "extreme" poverty line in 2011. (indexmedi, 2016) In rural area, more than half of the total population and three quarters of the rural population are being poor. The most vulnerable groups among Brazil's poor rural people are women, youth, indigenous peoples and quilombolas (afro descendents) communities. Poor rural households are concentrated in the Northeast. The household head is illiterate (frequently even if he attended school) and works in agriculture (WB, 2016). Women tend to be the household headed and it is very common in Brazil, because their husbands migrate to other parts of the country to work, and they have significantly less access to water and sanitation services than do better-off urban

“Studies have consistently highlighted that Afro-descendants and indigenous people are far more likely to live in poverty, die at a younger age, suffer police abuse, and earn significantly less than whites no matter their level of education or position in society” (plus America, 2016). Still people in Brazil suffer from discrimination from time of colonialism, white still the richer, and indigenous and African are the poor, this type of social inequality still presented in Brazil every day life. In addition, some people believe that colonialism leds Brazil to exhaustion of its natural recourse, and the country still suffer from the same issue. Latin American dictatorships in the 20th century have affected the poverty issue in the country, through their huge investment with the US, the inflation rate increased. Inflation proceeded worsened the conditions of the poor. The dictatorships raised GDP, on the other hand, made the poor poorer in comparison to the rate of