Charles H. Wood, Jose Alberto Magno Carvalho, Wood Charles H.

The Demography of Inequality in Brazil

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 448g
• ISBN-13: 9780521102469
• ISBN-10: 0521102464
• Artikelnr.: 25686580

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Framework for the study of population
3. Growth and distribution in historical perspective
4. Income inequality and length of life
5. Wage policy, infant mortality and collective social action in São Paulo
6. Racial inequality and child mortality
7. The 'baby' bust
8. Income distribution and population growth
9. Agrarian structure and the rural exodus
10. Colonization and frontier expansion in Amazonia
11. Development and persistent underemployment
12. The demography of inequality in Brazil: summary and conclusion.