"Eliminating hunger and making sure all Brazilians are able to eat three square meals a day was one of Lula's main campaign pledges in 2002."
(IPS) - This decade will be marked by the reduction of inequality in Brazil, just as the 1990s brought currency stability and the universalisation of primary education, according to Marcelo Neri, the head of the Getulio Vargas Foundation's Centre for Social Policies.
Brazil has the most unequal distribution of income in Latin America, which is the most unequal region in the world.
But economic inequality in Brazil has been diminishing at a fast pace since 2001, with the per capita income of the poor growing "at a Chinese-style rate," which is expected to continue this year, Neri told IPS.
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