wage distribution in Brazil during the 1988-95 trade liberalization. Unlike in other Latin American countries, trade …

Brazil's slow pace of poverty reduction over the last two decades reflects both low growth and a low growth elasticity … because there was so little of it, economic growth played a relatively small role in accounting for Brazil's poverty reduction …

Measured by the Gini coefficient, income inequality in Brazil rose from 0.57 in 1981 to 0.63 in 1989, before falling … back to 0.56 in 2004. This latest figure would lower Brazil's world inequality rank from 2nd (in 1989) to 10th (in 2004 … the determinants of Brazil's distributional reversal over this period. The rise in inequality in the 1980s appears to have …

Brazilian income distribution and those of Mexico and the United States, and find that most of Brazil's excess income inequality …

What was the impact of Brazil's 1998-99 currency crisis-which resulted in a change of exchange rate regime and a large …