Ferreira, Francisco H.G.; Litchfield, Julie - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 1996
This paper analyses the evolution of inequality and poverty in Brazil during the 1980s, using a large repeated cross …-section household survey data set. We calculate standard scalar measures of inequality and poverty, together with decile means and … dominance is used in poverty comparisons. Sensitivity of the measures and of the observed trends to the equivalence scale used …