DISTRIBUIÇÃO DE RENDA, POBREZA E DESIGUALDADES REGIONAIS NO BRASIL

Abstract

This work aims at studying personal income distribution and poverty in Brazil. Thus, it brings forward marked features of the existence of regional disparities in Brazil, summarizes and analyzes data on the evolution of income in the country as a whole and in its great regions in the 1960-1988 period, and attempts to quantify absolute poverty, making use of the available statistics, which are given selected social indicators as complement. The author concludes: there was little progress in the fight against poverty in the period under analysis; GNP growth caused more or unchanged income concentration; the gains obtained in the period of hastened growth were neutralized by moments of depression; though concentrating, economic growth decreases the incidence of poverty, while non-growth, besides aggravating income concentration, turns out to be perverse mainly to poor populations; highly exclusionist, it is not admissible that the model of development should last any longer.