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49. While inequality may be decreasing in Brazil, it is quite high

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Reply #46)

Mon Feb 20, 2012, 01:30 PM

Feb 2012

Brazil as a ‘Belindia’: a large, poor India coexisting with a small, rich Belgium

Brazil is one of the most unequal nations in the world, although it is one of the wealthiest. According
to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), income inequalities as measured by the
GINI index2 are higher only than those of some very poor African countries such as Sierra Leone,
Swaziland, Lesotho or Namibia. However, the World Bank ranks the Brazilian economy among the 10
richest in the world, with a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of $1.7 trillion PPP3, similar to the Italian
GDP. Considering that the country has a population of 187 million4, its per capita GDP is in the order
of $ 9,000 PPP.

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/resources/downloads/FP2P/FP2P_Brazil_Inequality_Poverty_BP_ENGLISH.pdf

I don't think of Argentina, Chile, Peru, Paraguay, Bolivia, etc, as highly egalitarian states.

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