The work shows that in the 90s the growth of activities linked to the informal economy has become a lasting feature of Brazilian society; this fact is empirically verified for the main metropolitan regions. Analysing the case of street peddlers, the trend of the Rio de Janeiro economy towards a...

This text analyzes Brazilian families spending with public and private urban transport based on family budget surveys conducted by IBGE in 2003 and 2009. It was observed that on average Brazilian families spend about 15% of their income on urban transportation. Private transport expenses are...