Wealth and Inequality in the State of Amazonas
Inequality in income distribution is still a serious issue in the Brazilian economy. By taking a regional approach, this paper aim is to estimate a series of indicators of wealth for the state of Amazonas in the period from 1995 to 2015, using national sample household survey data (PNAD). Wealth was...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2018 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Instituto Paranaense de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social (IPARDES) |
| Repositorio: | Revista Paranaense de Desenvolvimento (Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.ipardes.emnuvens.com.br:article/941 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://ipardes.emnuvens.com.br/revistaparanaense/article/view/941 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Wealth. Inequality. Income distribution. Annual PNAD. Amazonas-Brazil. Riqueza. Desigualdad. Distribución de renta. PNAD-Anual. Amazonas-Brasil. Riqueza Desigualdade Distribuição de Renda PNAD-Anual Amazonas-Brasil. |
| Sumario: | Inequality in income distribution is still a serious issue in the Brazilian economy. By taking a regional approach, this paper aim is to estimate a series of indicators of wealth for the state of Amazonas in the period from 1995 to 2015, using national sample household survey data (PNAD). Wealth was estimated for the entire sample (100%) and also for the 1% richest. The results show that the period from 1995 to 2015 was one of economic growth (with a GDP and a GDP increase of 70,51% and 5,48% per capita, respectively), but that unemployment also increased, by 27.85%. In such a scenario, there was a reduction in income concentration (10.67%), an increase in the affluence line (14.20%) and in the number of rich people (2.67%), as well as a decrease in other wealth indicators (concaveand convex) considering the entire sample (100%). Regarding the 1% richest, all wealth indicators declined in the period in terms of lower disparities between the wealth of the 1% and in the volume of wealth they maintained. |
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