Growing apart: inequality and poverty trends in Brazil in the 1980s

Ferreira, Francisco H. G. ORCID: 0000-0001-8926-0500 and Litchfield, Julie (1996) Growing apart: inequality and poverty trends in Brazil in the 1980s. DARP (23). Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London, UK.

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Abstract

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 decile shares. We also present percentile statistics in the form of Pen?s Parades, Lorenz and Generalised Lorenz curves. First and second order stochastic dominance results are reported for a number of distributions, and statistical tests are performed to infer population dominance, generating robust welfare and inequality comparisons. Analogously, mixed stochastic dominance is used in poverty comparisons. Sensitivity of the measures and of the observed trends to the equivalence scale used is investigated. The main finding is that inequality worsened unambiguously, although not monotonically, during the 1980s. Poverty also rose, despite some growth in mean reported incomes, but its behaviour was more cyclical than that of inequality.

Item Type:	Monograph (Discussion Paper)
Official URL:	http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk
Additional Information:	© 1996 Francisco H. G. Ferreira and Julie Litchfield
Divisions:	STICERD
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology
Date Deposited:	07 Jul 2008 13:58
Last Modified:	11 Dec 2024 18:23
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/6603

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