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Income polarization, the middle class and informal employment in Greater Buenos Aires, 1974-2010
(United Nations, 2013-04)
This article examines the social structure of Argentina’s main conurbation, Greater Buenos Aires, over the past four decades. The research focused on identifying changes in society by stratifying it into three social ...
Race, Class and Income Inequality in Brazil: A Social Trajectory Analysis
(Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2020)
The new middle class: the right side of the poor
(2010-09-01)
The study describes the recent evolution of income distribution, poverty with a special focus on the so called new middle class, its financial possibilities, access to consumer goods, assets and aspirations. It extends and ...
The middle class and the development process
(ECLAC, 2008-04)
Stable, higher income democracies often have both a strong middle class and relatively low levels of inequality. In contrast, lower and middle income countries with highly unequal patterns of income distribution and ...
Brazil's middle classes
(Fundação Getulio Vargas. Escola de Pós-graduação em Economia, 2014-12-23)
This paper discusses the Brazilian middle class, its definition, evolution, profile, attitudes and durability. It describes the methodology that uses per capita household income derived from household surveys to determine ...
Microinsurance and the new middle class: income risk, social insurance and the demand for private insurance by low-income population
(2009-09-01)
The Center for Social Policies at the Getulio Vargas Foundation (CPS/FGV) has shown in successive studies the emergence of a new middle class in Brazil: from 2003 to 2008, 27 million people have ascended to classes ABC. ...