The paper discusses the concept of polarization of an income distribution and examines the earnings distribution of employees in Brazilian agriculture in the period 1992-2007. Considering the period 1995-2007, after the monetary stabilization, it is shown that the inequality of that distribution...

The paper analyses poverty in Brazil from 1992 to 2004, combining the usual measure based on income with other indicators of well-being and social development, thus better capturing different poverty situations. Using data from an annual household survey (PNAD), the poor are classified in three...