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Brazil’s inequality is decades away from Europe

By Tiago Mali

The IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics) announced on May 12 the largest reduction in income inequality in 11 years since the beginning of the current historical series in 2012.

Even so, Brazil is still at the top of the world's income concentration and has a long way to go to reduce inequality at developed country levels.

A comparison with the most current data from the Gini index (the most widely used measure of inequality) of other countries shows Brazil as the 10th worst in inequality.

Only African countries, such as South Africa, which tops . . .

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