Details
- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- Inequality and Economic Development in Brazil
- Auflage
- 1
- Ort / Verlag
- Washington: World Bank Publications
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2004
- Link zum Volltext
- Quelle
- Alma/SFX Local Collection
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- Inequality and Economic Development in Brazil is part of the World Bank Country Study series. These reports are published with the approval of the subject government to communicate the results of the Bank’s work on the economic and related conditions of member countries to governments and to the development community. Excessive income inequality is unfair and undesirable on ethical grounds and can bring adverse effects on economic growth, health outcomes, social cohesion, and crime. Besides, excessively unequal initial conditions are likely to lead to a perverse cycle of weak social mobility. Even more in countries—like Brazil—where fertility differentials between educated and uneducated mothers are much stronger. Brazil’s income inequality has been very high and persistent over time, and it has deep historic roots. Nonetheless, there have been important income improvements for the poorest, especially since stabilization in 1993 and, Brazil has achieved major improvements in social indicators in the last decades. Inequality and Economic Development in Brazil addresses three questions: Why do inequalities matter for Brazil development? Why Brazil occupies a position of very high inequality in the international community? What should public policy do about it?
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISBN: 0821358804, 9780821358801DOI: 10.1596/0-8213-5880-4Titel-ID: cdi_worldbank_openknowledgerepository_oai_openknowledge_worldbank_org_10986_14913
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- 1985, AGRICULTURE, AVERAGE INCOME, Brazil, CASH TRANSFER PROGRAMS, COMPETITIVENESS, CREDIT PROGRAMS, DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION, DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS, Economic conditions, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, ECONOMIC GROWTH, ECONOMISTS, ELASTICITY, ELASTICITY OF SUBSTITUTION, EMPLOYMENT, ENTITLEMENTS, Equality, EXPENDITURES, EXTREME POVERTY, FOOD POLICY RESEARCH, GDP, GINI COEFFICIENT, GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES, GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT, HEADCOUNT INDEX, HEALTH OUTCOMES, HOUSEHOLD INCOME, HOUSEHOLD SURVEY DATA, HUMAN CAPITAL, IMPLICIT SUBSIDIES, INCIDENCE OF POVERTY, INCOME, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, INCOME GROUPS, INCOME INEQUALITY, INEQUALITY, INEQUALITY MEASURES, INEQUALITY REDUCTION, INTERGENERATIONAL EQUITY, INTERVENTIONS, LABOR FORCE, LABOR INCOME, LIFE EXPECTANCY, LIVING CONDITIONS, LORENZ CURVE, LSMS, NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS, OLD AGE, PENSIONS, PER CAPITA INCOME, POOR, POVERTY INCIDENCE, POVERTY MEASURES, POVERTY REDUCTION, PRIVATE SECTOR, PROGRAM DESIGNS, PROGRAMS, PUBLIC SPENDING, PURCHASING POWER, REDUCING POVERTY, REGRESSIVE TRANSFERS, SIMULATIONS, SOCIAL ASSISTANCE, SOCIAL POLICIES, SOCIAL PROGRAMS, SOCIAL SECURITY, SOCIAL SPENDING, TARGETING, TAX RATES, TAX REFORM, TAX REFORMS, TAX REVENUE, TAXATION, TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE, TIME SERIES, TRADEOFFS, URBAN CENTERS, VALUE ADDED, WAGE DIFFERENTIALS, WAGE INEQUALITY, WAGES, WELFARE EFFECTS