Milanovic, Lindert and Williamson (2007) introduced the concept of the inequality possibility frontier. Their starting point is that very poor societies will never display high Gini indexes of personal distribution of income because there is very little surplus to be appropriated by the upper...

parte I. Considerações teóricas -- parte II. A questão da pobreza : o Brasil no contexto mundial -- parte III. Desigualdades regionais : raízes históricas -- parte IV. Pesquisa empírica : pobreza en Natal-RN

This paper aims to describe the ongoing process of regional convergence among Brazilian metropolitan areas and the rest of the country, examining its main reasons and highlighting its importance to the overall decline in income inequality. Our analysis shows that, since the early 1980's, per...