Chapter 12 Conclusion

Abstract

A process of economic growth can certainly take place with insufficient diminution of poverty and with widening gaps in income distribution. In Ceara, as in many other states in Brazil and in the world, there are problems of poverty and of inequality, besides macroeconomic growth. Although measurement and definition questions may lead to different evaluations of its volume, it is clear that rural poverty is greater than urban poverty in Ceara, and much more than the urban poverty in the Metropolitan Region of Fortaleza. This picture is typical of most states in the process of economic development, and cannot be dismissed as a result of any specific conditions in this state.

Citation

Bar-El, R. (2008), "Chapter 12 Conclusion", Bar-El, R. (Ed.) Regional Development and Conflict Management: A Case for Brazil (Contributions to Conflict Management, Peace Economics and Development, Vol. 8), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 173-182. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1572-8323(08)08012-0