Qual o impacto da liberdade econômica para a pobreza e desigualdade mundial?: uma análise através de dados em painel

Abstract

This paper aims to measure how economic freedom impacts poverty and inequality. To achieve this goal, the Economic Freedom World Index, published by the Fraser Institute, was used as a way to measure economic freedom, the Gini Index as an inequality variable and the Poverty gap at US$1.90 a day as a way to quantify the intensity of poverty. Futhermore, fixed and random effects models were used to control the correlation between unobserved heterogeneity and the error term. The results indicate that economic freedom has significant effects on reducing poverty, but not in inequality.