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EXPORTS AND INEQUALITY: EVIDENCE FROM THE BRAZILIAN FRONTIER, 1870–1937
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 August 2001
Abstract
In order to examine the relation between exports and inequality, this article first estimates per-capita income, exports, and other indicators of economic development in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Manuscript data are analyzed to measure and interpret three kinds of inequality: of income, of total wealth, and of landholding. The results suggest that exports and foreign ownership contributed far less to inequality than is imagined in dependency theory.
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