Pobreza urbana e cidade média não metropolitana: construção de um índice de pobreza multidimensional para o município de Varginha/MG

Abstract

The urbanization process has been a producer and producer of poverty as its creation is based on the Brazilian reproduction of inequalities. Within this logic, even medium-rich non-metropolitan cities have pockets of poverty in their territory. This project aims to build a Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) in Varginha/MG. Understanding poverty as a multifaceted process and resulting from different dimensions, the one used to compose the index follows those coined by Alkire and Foster, which make it possible to create an MPI from different variables. The realization of this research recognizes, from the above perspective, the importance of studying poverty in non-metropolitan rich regions, as we understand that their forms of economic configuration differ from metropolitan areas and impoverished regions. “Knowing solutions. The methodological procedures adopted to carry out this research involved two premises. The first one resided in the use of secondary data through the official bodies of the municipality in order to provide an overview of poverty in the municipality; and the part dealt with the point of view of the experiences carried out, as the second dimension, from the point of view complementing the data of the sciences and creating an IPM that reflects in a more comprehensive way in depth. poor of the city's population. The main results found point to a significant poverty in the research. There is a high degree of deprivation among the target audience identified as multidimensionally poor. Plans to prevent different categories of deprivation worsen the conditions they experience. Note that the geographic, economic and social diversity of cities allows for different degrees of deprivation within the same spatial set. The results offer the need to carry out research that sheds new light on reality as different locations, differentiate and barriers in specific scenarios.