The Gini coefficient of labor earnings in Brazil fell by nearly a fifth between 1995 and 2012, from 0.50 to 0.41. The …

Food price inflation in Brazil in the twelve months to June 2008 was 18 percent, while overall inflation was seven … welfare consequences of these food price increases, and their distribution across households. Because Brazil is a large food … increases in two large social assistance benefits, the overall impact of higher food prices in Brazil was U-shaped, with middle …

wage distribution in Brazil during the 1988-95 trade liberalization. Unlike in other Latin American countries, trade …

Measured by the Gini coefficient, income inequality in Brazil rose from 0.57 in 1981 to 0.63 in 1989, before falling … back to 0.56 in 2004. This latest figure would lower Brazil's world inequality rank from 2nd (in 1989) to 10th (in 2004 … the determinants of Brazil's distributional reversal over this period. The rise in inequality in the 1980s appears to have …