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Income inequality is a phenomenon that occurs in different proportions in many countries of the world. In Brazil, the … this occurrence in the neighboring units. This results is to somewhat expected since that in Brazil there is a clear North … Brazil, recent public policies such as the universalization of education access and cash transfers programs, for instance …
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The paper provides historical perspectives on spatial economic inequalities in Brazil making use of a database on …
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Regional inequality may hinder national development, which is disconcerting for Brazil as one of the world's most … Brazil and examines their dispersion over the time period from 1872 to 2015. Spatial inequality followed a cyclical pattern …
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This work calculates coefficients of spatial inequalities of wealth amongst Brazilian municipalities, for each year for the period from 1920 to 2016, states of the federation, from 1939 to 2017, and amongst municipalities from each of the five Brazilians' macro-regions, from 1920 to 2016. The...
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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...
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The paper presents an analysis of regional income inequalities in Brazil for the period 1939-1990, based on a data set … with other measures commonly used in the New Theory of Growth literature. There is no evidence of convergence in Brazil for …
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