Lacerda, Antônio Corrêa de

Distribuição de renda no Brasil nos anos 80 - São Paulo : Nobel, jul./set. 1994

Contrary to the huge development of the Brazilian economy from the post-war to the end of the seventies, the eighties signified the rupture of this cycle and the combination of a chronic inflationary process, the economic stagnation and the worsening of income inequality. These factors together has not revealed to be neutral concerning the distributive aspect. Between 1981 and 1989, the income of the 10 per cent richer increased 14,2 per cent, while the income of the 20 per cent poorer decreased 26 per cent. This work presents some international comparisons, even on the fuctional as well as on the personal distribution of income, and concludes that this distribution becomes a fundamental aspect the stabilization and to the economic-social development recovering