A visão utópica da CEPAL e a desigualdade de renda no Brasil

Abstract

In 2014, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) stated that a development strategy aimed at greater economic equity, greater social justice and greater environmental protection could be adopted in several countries in Latin America – a scenario which however has been disfigured in recent years. This article thus has three objectives: (1) to analyze the utopian character of ECLAC’s agenda for the promotion of more egalitarian societies in Latin America; (2) to list the main determinants of the reduction of income inequality in Brazil in the period 2004-2014; and (3) to examine the interruption of the trajectory of reduction of income inequality – from the 2016 political coup and the approval of neoliberal reforms that increased the precariousness of jobs and weakened the social protection system –, as evidence of the interdiction of an inclusive development strategy in Brazil.

Keywords

• Brazil
• ECLAC
• labour inequalities
• labour market
• Latin America