Год выпуска: 2009 Автор: Mathilda Schonbeck Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 60 ISBN: 9783838315058
Описание
This paper will focus on how growth has been allocated among the people in Brazil, during the years of 1976 and 2003. Poverty and inequalities are investigated along with poverty reduction, thus if growth has been pro poor. In addition, the regional differences – the southeast and the northeast – are analyzed separately in order to see if there is any difference in the two regions in the agricultural and the industrial sector respectively. This is done to see if there is any correlation between growth and poverty reduction. Using to the theory by Arthur Lewis who developed a two sector model - the agricultural and industrial - the “Lewis organizational dualism”. This model was later modified by Gunnar Myrdal and Nicholas Kaldor, who blamed the current situation of the society on “historical accident” where, because of an upward spiral of cumulative causation, urban areas grew and regions in the periphery stagnated. Data collected from Instituto de Pesquisa Economica...
