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About James Rezende Piton
Expertise
Feel free to ask about the grammar and history of the international auxiliary language Esperanto and also about my mother tongue, Portuguese. I can provide some translation from that languages to English or French.

Experience
I speak Esperanto since 1988 and I write and publish articles, I regularly translate into and from that language and I use it also at familiar level, with my bilingual children. My mother tongue I speak since... ever! ;-)

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World Esperanto Association

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"Esperanto", "Brazila Esperantisto", "La Lampiro", "La Verda Lupeo", "Hirundo Esperantista"

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Applied and Computing Mathematics (1993), Data Processing (1987).

 
   

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Expert: James Rezende Piton - 2/9/2009

Question
Hello, James.  I have a Portuguese translation question.  The chart at http://www.estadao.com.br/interatividade/Multimidia/ShowEspeciais!destaque.actio... shows a category called "disponibilidade de recursos."  Could you please tell me what this refers to?

Thank you.

Answer
Hi, Mike

The expression "Disponibilidade de recursos" means "Resource availability", as you can guess. The subtitle of that "Map of Poverty" is "Where the poor are poorer according to IDF"

Brazilian Ministry of Social Development created a Familiar Development Rate (IDF) based on data collected among families regularly perceiving state fundings to mitigate their extreme poverty and help them keeping children in schools (otherwise the children would be forced by their situation to leave formal education and to work for survival). To qualify, the family income per capita is very, very low (less than R$ 60/member a month ~ US$ 25), the extremely poor, or less than R$ 120/member a month ~ US$ 50), the poor. 11 million of families are in this program.

The IDF rate of each city ranges between 0 (worst) to 1 (best) and accounts: vulnerability (how many members in the family are unable to work, permanently or for a while, as mothers of newborns), instruction level of each member, access to formal work, family income, children development (children education), lodging conditions (if the house is located, the material of construction, access to tap water, electricity and so on). You can check the little squares to see in the map a certain level (only black and green appear checked by default).

The section "Resource availability" corresponds to Family Income and how much of this is supplied by the federal or state social programs(you know we are in Brazil a federation of states).

I hope this helps you. I didn't noticed this new statistical work and your question gave me a chance to read about it.
Do not hesitate to ask again, if you need.

Best wishes,

=james=

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