Mapping Recent Trends in the Distribution of Wealth in Brazil

Simple item page
dc.contributor.authorLavinas, Lena
dc.contributor.authorCordilha, Ana Carolina
dc.contributor.authorBressan, Lucas
dc.contributor.authorRubin, Pedro
dc.date.accessioned2023-07-18T11:48:26Z
dc.date.available2023-07-18T11:48:26Z
dc.date.issued2023-07-19
dc.departmentSouthern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCIS)
dc.description.abstractThe interest in mapping wealth and how it is concentrated is relatively recent in Brazil, even though Brazilian society remains one of the most unequal in the world, when inequality is measured by taking only labour income and social benefits. When it comes to wealth, the picture is even more appalling. The present paper describes the recent evolution of financial and non-financial personal wealth in Brazil. The aim is to indicate how the different forms of wealth - in particular the strong expansion of fictitious capital - reshape inequalities in Brazil. It starts by contextualizing the difficulties encountered in accessing data on stocks of wealth in Brazil. In the absence of surveys on wealth, the paper describes how pensions and rental income are appropriated by income strata, using research on household spending. It then highlights how land, a real asset par excellence, is being transformed into a financial asset, attracting institutional investors and international capital. Finally, it summarizes some preliminary ideas on how the transition in the nature of wealth, driven by a financialized accumulation regime, impacts the framework of structural inequalities that have long characterized the Brazilian society.
dc.description.librarianCM2023
dc.description.sponsorshipUniversity of the Witwatersrand
dc.description.sponsorshipSouthern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCIS)
dc.facultyFaculty of Commerce, Law and Management
dc.identifier.citationLavinas, L., Cordilha, A.C., Bressan, L and Rubin, P. 2023. Mapping Recent Trends in the Distribution of Wealth in Brazil. Wealth Inequality Working Paper | Number 55
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/35691
dc.publisherSouthern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCIS)
dc.publisherUniversity of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
dc.relation.ispartofseries55
dc.rights©2023 Southern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCIS)
dc.schoolSouthern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCIS)
dc.subjectWealth Inequality
dc.subjectBrazil
dc.subjectWealth
dc.titleMapping Recent Trends in the Distribution of Wealth in Brazil
dc.typeWorking Paper
Files
Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
No 55 Working paper_ Mapping Recent Trends in the Distribution of Wealth in Brazil.pdf
Size:
1.33 MB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Download
License bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
No Thumbnail Available
Name:
license.txt
Size:
2.43 KB
Format:
Item-specific license agreed upon to submission
Description:
Download
Collections
*Southern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCIS) - (Working papers)
Wits Research Outputs