Distribuição da renda e pobreza entre as famílias no Brasil, de 1980 a 1983
Abstract
Using yearly data on the distribution of income among families, in Brazil, the pa-per shows that m the period 1980-83 the inequality of that distribution is stable but that the absolute poverty did increase, as a consequence of the economic crisis. The analysis is carried out for Brazil and for four regions: Northeast, Southeast, South and Middle-West. It is shown that the decrease of average family income was greater in the most industrialized regions.