Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/200604 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 163
Publisher: 
International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG), Brasilia
Abstract: 
Extreme inequality in Brazil is self-evident. The historian José Murilo de Carvalho emblematically chose to end his book on the history of citizenship in Brazil with the severe diagnosis that 'inequality is the slavery of today, the new cancer that hinders the constitution of a democratic society' (Carvalho 2001, 229). Normative prescriptions aside, not even historical opponents of redistributive policies, such as Mário Henrique Simonsen, failed to recognise - even if reluctantly - income inequality as 'undesirably high', and as a source of 'pained conscience' (Simonsen 1972, 57; 59). [...]
Subjects: 
concentration
income
top
Brazil
2006
2014
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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