The aim of this review is to present the advantages of adopting an alternative network of clusters rather than the municipal and others spatial networks currently available for diagnosis and social policies. Though it is common practice to generate indicators on a municipal level and, based on...

The persistence of absolute poverty in Brazil is associated with high levels of income inequality. For this article, this association is the departing point for presenting a schematic evolution of poverty in Brazil in the last three decades: a sharp decline in the seventies as income grew at...

Este texto reúne evidências empíricas recentes sobre a queda da desigualdade de renda no Brasil. O ponto de partida é a contribuição de cada tipo de renda para a queda do coeficiente de Gini da renda domiciliar per capita no período 1997-2009. Discutem-se a seguir as características de...