Globalization and regional economic integration have increased factor mobility and have reduced commercial barriers among countries. In this context, tax competition among national (subnational) governments to attract factors of production and consumers to their respective jurisdictions became...

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