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Searching with a thematic focus on Poverty, poverty inequality in Brazil

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    The impact of relative prices on welfare and inequality in Brazil 1995-2005

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2007
    This paper analyses the impact of relative prices on the evolution of welfare and inequality in Brazil from 1995 to 2005. The authors argue that:
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    Conditional cash transfers in Brazil, Chile, and Mexico: impacts on inequality

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2007
    This working paper examines whether Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programmes have had an inequality reducing effect in three Latin American countries: Brazil, Mexico and Chile.
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    Has there been any social mobility for non-whites in Brazil?

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2007
    The legal grounds for racial stratification have been eliminated in Brazil. However, race remains a very important determinant of stratification. This one-pager examines the social mobility of racial groups in Brazil.The overall conclusion the author presents is that non-whites, as a group, have experienced very little social mobility.
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    Spatial externalities between Brazilian municipios and their neighbours

    Développement, Institutions & Analyses de Long terme, 2005
    In this paper the authors document and analyse the evolution of GDP per capita in the Northeast and in other regions of Brazil. They use measures of GDP per capita at the municipality level computed in 1970 and 1996.
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    Inequality in Latin America: processes and inputs

    Poverty Research Unit, Sussex, 2003
    This paper analyses the multidimensional aspects of inequality by discussing the concept of inequality along three types of processes:economic, social, and political, and three different dimensions: regional, rural/urban and across population groups.
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    Half a world: regional inequality in five great federations

    World Bank, 2004
    This paper explores some of the reasons why large groups of the population pull ahead, while equally large groups stay behind within the context of regional (spatial) inequality.

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