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The rise and fall of Brazilian inequality, 1981-2004

Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Leite, Phillippe G.; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2006

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 …

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Policy options for meeting the Millennium Development Goals in Brazil : can micro-simulations help?

Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Leite, Phillippe G. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2003

inequality. Although it highlights the importance of inequality reduction, it appears to be too general to be of much use for …

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Can the distributional impacts of macroeconomic shocks be predicted? A comparison of the performance of macro-micro models with historical data for Brazil

Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Leite, Phillippe G.; Pereira … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2004

What was the impact of Brazil's 1998-99 currency crisis-which resulted in a change of exchange rate regime and a large real devaluation-on the occupational structure of the labor force and the distribution of incomes? Would it have been possible to predict such effects ahead of the crisis? The...

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Poverty reduction without economic growth ? explaining Brazil's poverty dynamics, 1985-2004

Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Leite, Phillippe G.; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2007

Brazil's slow pace of poverty reduction over the last two decades reflects both low growth and a low growth elasticity of poverty reduction. Using GDP data disaggregated by state and sector for a twenty-year period, this paper finds considerable variation in the poverty-reducing effectiveness of...

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