Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/298104 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Paper No. 271
Publisher: 
Institute for Applied Economic Research (ipea), Brasília
Abstract: 
This work calculates coefficients of spatial inequalities of wealth amongst Brazilian municipalities, for each year for the period from 1920 to 2016, states of the federation, from 1939 to 2017, and amongst municipalities from each of the five Brazilians' macro-regions, from 1920 to 2016. The use of non-parametric statistics reveals rough short-term paths of inequalities, and the occurrence of U-shaped relationships between spatial inequalities and the level of per capita GDP, known as the Williamson's Curve (1965). Decomposition of the changes in the Gini coefficients show intense rank turbulence and leapfrogging over richer municipalities, from 1920 to 1970. Although the coefficients confirmed a long-term convergence trend in spatial inequalities, since 1970, there have been significant differences between macro-regional spatial inequalities dynamics, and a worrying switch to divergence in the Southeast, since in 1996.
Subjects: 
regional inequalities
regional economic development
income convergence
non-parametric data analysis
JEL: 
R11
C14
C82
N9
O47
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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