The Demography of Inequality in Brazil

by Jose Alberto Magno Carvalho and Charles H. Wood

Book Overview

This book examines how transformations in Brazil's social, economic and political organization affect the demographic behaviour of people who live in different parts of the country and who occupy different positions in the social system. The authors review the history of unequal development and document the concentration of income and land ownership. Using data from the 1970 and 1980 censuses, they show how the Brazilian style of economic growth unequally...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521102464
• ISBN13: 9780521102469
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"