DESIGUALDADE DE RENDA E CRESCIMENTO ECONÔMICO NOS MUNICÍPIOS DA REGIÃO NORDESTE DO BRASIL: O QUE OS DADOS TÊM A DIZER?

Abstract

This paper analyses the inverted-U hypothesis between income inequality and economic growth to the cities of northeast of Brazil from 1970 to 1991. To it was used econometric analysis of cross section and panel data to the information from Atlas de Desenvolvimento Humano no Brasil. The results not refute the existence of a Kuznets curve.