The Myth of Post-Reform Income Stagnation in Brazil /

This paper uses Engel curves to estimate real income growth in Brazil. The estimated per capita household real income growth in metropolitan areas during 1987-2002 is about 4 1\2 percent per year, well above the "headline" growth of 1 1\2 percent obtained by deflating nominal incomes by th...

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Autore principale: de Carvalho Filho, Irineu
Altri autori: Chamon, Marcos
Natura: Periodico
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2006.
Serie:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2006/275
Accesso online:Full text available on IMF