"Empirically-based study analyzes social consequences of uneven development in Brazil during last two decades. Draws on social, economic, and political indicators; documents social inequality in income, education, housing, and demographic outcomes. Examines trajectories for development, and...

The persistence of absolute poverty in Brazil is associated with high levels of income inequality. For this article, this association is the departing point for presenting a schematic evolution of poverty in Brazil in the last three decades: a sharp decline in the 70's as income grew at high...

After decades of persistent disparities, inequality in Brazil has fallen steadily over the last fifteen years. This robust rate of decline has surpassed the pace of the Latin American region as a whole, and is taking place as inequality rises in several rapid-growth emerging economies in other...