This paper aims present, for the Brazilian reality, a diagnosis of the relationships among education and inequality that it justifies the need to define a politics of accelerated expansion of education to assure the bases of a sustainable process of development. The analysis of the labor market,...

Despite tremendous macroeconomic instability, Brazil?s urban income distributions in 1976 and 1996 appear, at first glance, deceptively similar. Mean household income per capita was stagnant, with a minute accumulated growth of 4.3% over the two decades. The Gini coefficient hovered just above...

The goal of this paper is twofold. First, it seeks to provide some empirical evidence on the importance of a continuous process of educational expansion for equitable and sustainable socioeconomic development. Second, it provides an evaluation of the Brazilian educational performance and seeks...