Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Paes de Barrios, Ricardo - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1999
Despite tremendous macroeconomic instability in Brazil, the country's distributions of urban income in 1976 and 1996 appear, at first glance, deceptively similar. Mean household income per capita was stagnant, with minute accumulated growth (4.3 percent) over the two decades. The Gini...