Beyond income transfers: The decline of regional inequality in Brazil during the 2000s

Danilo Limoeiro
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Danilo Limoeiro: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

Progress in Development Studies, 2015, vol. 15, issue 1, 6-21

Abstract: This article seeks to explain declining regional inequality in Brazil by exploring the economic ‘catch-up’ of Brazil’s poorest region. To that end, the article analyzes income policies as well as supply-side policies aimed at improving the productive capacity of poor regions, and presents data showing that both have proven more important than the current literature suggests. The article also introduces the concept of regional Keynesian effects, and provides preliminary evidence for its relevance, to demonstrate that income policies, such as cash transfers to poor regions, have the potential to foster local output growth.

Keywords: income distribution; Brazil’s Northeast region; cash transfer programmes; supply-side policies; regional policies; regional Keynesian effects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1177/1464993414546975

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