Inequality, Poverty, Markets, and the State: The Case of Brazil

Nora Lustig made the following presentation at the World Without Poverty International Seminar in Brazil on November 18-19, 2014. 

From the presentation: 

• Decline is pervasive and significant
• Larger than the rise in inequality in 1990s
• Important contribution to the decline in poverty
• Contributed to the rise of the middle-class

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