Distribution of income and poverty among families in Brazil, 1980-1983

Rodolfo Hoffmann ()

Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, 1985, vol. 5, issue 3, 370-380

Abstract: Using yearly data on the distribution of income among families, in Brazil, thepaper shows that in the period 1980-83 the inequality of that distribution is stable but thatthe absolute poverty did increase, as a consequence of the economic crisis. The analysis iscarried out for Brazil and for four regions: Northeast, Southeast, South, and Middle-West.It is shown that the decrease of average family income was greater in the most industrializedregions. JEL Classification: J31; O15.

Keywords: Income distribution; poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1985
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