Arbeitspapier

Understanding inequality in Brazil: A conceptual overview

This is a background note to a joint IPEA/World Bank Report, provisionally entitled "Selected Topics on Income Inequality in Brazil", with publication planned for 2001. The purpose of the note is twofold. First we propose four central questions which the Report should seek to address, and around which it can be structured. These are: "What is unique about Brazil's inequality?"; "Why does inequality matter?"; "Which inequality matters most?"; and "What - if anything - can the government do about it?". Second, we provide reasonably detailed outlines for four background papers for the Main Report: each addressing one of the foregoing questions.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Texto para discussão ; No. 434

Classification
Wirtschaft
Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Bourguignon, François
de Hollanda Guimarães Ferreira, Francisco
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Departamento de Economia
(where)
Rio de Janeiro
(when)
2000

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Bourguignon, François
  • de Hollanda Guimarães Ferreira, Francisco
  • Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Departamento de Economia

Time of origin

  • 2000

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