"Brazil's inequalities in welfare and poverty across and within regions can be accounted for by differences in … different quantiles of welfare distributions on regionally representative household survey data (2002-03 Household Budget Survey …). The analysis finds that household attributes account for most of the welfare differences between urban and rural areas …

household labor income and poverty in Brazil. The authors first estimate the extent of price transmission from world markets to …

"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 …

, Brazil. Infrastructure and social investments have been made in the community through a government program, with community …

its connected poverty trends. The main focus of the authors is understanding, for the case of Brazil, how a trade shock … interacts with these structural forces and ascertaining whether it enhances or hinders medium-term poverty reduction. In … particular, they consider the interactions between the migration of labor out of agriculture, a potentially important poverty …