Demographic dynamics of poverty and income inequality: the case of Brazil
There is a common belief that higher reproduction rates among the poor will increase average poverty levels, drive inequality up, prevent economic development and reduce upward mobility. To test this hypothesis we used 1980, 1991 and 2000 Brazilian Census data. We first present rates of demographic...
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| Language: | English |
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Associação Brasileira de Estudos Populacionais
2012-12-01
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| Series: | Revista Brasileira de Estudos de População |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-30982012000200007&lng=en&tlng=en |