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The slippery slope : explaining the increase in extreme poverty in urban Brazil, 1976-96 (English)

Abstract

Despite tremendous macroeconomic instability in Brazil, the country's distributions of urban income in 1976 and 1996 appear, at first glance, deceptively similar. Mean household income per capita was stagnant, with minute accumulated growth (4.3 percent... See More +

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  • Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Paes de Barrios, Ricardo; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.*Paes de Barrios, Ricardo;
  • 1999/10/31
  • Policy Research Working Paper
  • WPS2210
  • 1
  • 1
  • Brazil
  • Latin America & Caribbean
  • 2010/07/01
  • The slippery slope : explaining the increase in extreme poverty in urban Brazil, 1976-96
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