Ferreira, Francisco de Hollanda Guimarães; Barros, … - Departamento de Economia, Pontifícia Universidade … - 1999
Despite tremendous macroeconomic instability, Brazil’s urban income distributions in 1976 and 1996 appear, at first glance, deceptively similar. Mean household income per capita was stagnant, with a minute accumulated growth of 4.3% over the two decades. The Gini coefficient hovered just above...