The expenditure with foods of the Brazilian families have been affected by the alterations in the income and its distribution, the relative prices of the goods and by other structural transformations occurred in the Brazilian society, among which can be cited those associates with the...

The text presents the estimative of insufficiency of the caloric availability and the expenditures with food of the families of the largest urban regions of the country. For this, the normative food baskets of CEPAL, which take care of the nutritional recommendations, especially that ones...

This dissertation is an empirical investigation on the validity of main relationships, established in a theoretical model developed by Ferreira (2001), about the interaction between income, educational and political inequalities, as well as the influence of these inequalities on an economy's per...