O ritmo na queda da desigualdade no Brasil é aceitável

Bibliographic Data

ID5126900
AuthorsSergei Suarez Dillon Soares (0000-0003-4806-0267, Institute of Applied Economic Research, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume30
Issue3
Pages364-380
Publication date2010-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueBrazilian Journal of Political Economy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0101-3157 • E-ISSN: 1809-4538
PublisherFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/s0101-31572010000300001
OpenAlexW2140374500
SCIELO_PIDS0101-31572010000300001
LanguagePT
Citations received11
References cited7

The rhythm in the fall of inequality in Brazil is acceptable? Evidences of the historical and international context. The following study uses two approaches to answer the question of whether inequality in Brazil is falling fast enough. The first is to compare the variation of the Gini coefficient in Brazil with what was observed in several countries that today belong to the OCDE (United Kingdom, United States, Netherlands, Sweden, France, Norway, and Spain) while these same countries built their social welfare systems during the last century. The second approach is to calculate for how much Brazil must keep up the fall in the Gini coefficient to attain the same levels of inequality of three OCDE countries that can be used as a reference: Mexico, the United States, and Canada. The data indicate that the Gini coefficient in Brazil is falling 0.7 point per year and that this is superior to the rhythm of all the OCDE countries analyzed while they built their welfare systems but Spain, whose Gini fell 0.9 point per year during the 1950s. The time needed to attain various benchmarks in inequality are: 6 years to Mexico, 12 to the United States and 24 to Canadian inequality levels. The general conclusion is that the speed with which inequality is falling is adequate, but the challenge will be to keep inequality falling at the same rate for another two or three decades

Context (archaeology · Demographic economics · Economic inequality · Economics · Falling (accident · Geography · Gini coefficient · Inequality · Welfare · Welfare economics · Economic Theory and Policy · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Mathematics

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