Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/118860 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
50th Congress of the European Regional Science Association: "Sustainable Regional Growth and Development in the Creative Knowledge Economy", 19-23 August 2010, Jönköping, Sweden
Publisher: 
European Regional Science Association (ERSA), Louvain-la-Neuve
Abstract: 
Milanovic, Lindert and Williamson (2007) were the first to introduce the concept of the "Inequality Possibility Frontier". Their starting point is that very poor societies will never display high Gini indexes of personal distribution of income because there is very little surplus to be appropriated by the upper classes of these societies. The Inequality Possibility Frontier is the maximum level of inequality possible at each level of income. This paper extends the concept to cover regional cases. Countries with populations close to subsistence level inevitably display low regional inequality of income per capita. Rising levels of wealth imply higher attainable degrees of regional inequality. The concept of a Regional Inequality Possibility Frontier is presented in this paper, and is illustrated by the case of Brazil between 1872 and 2000.
Document Type: 
Conference Paper

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