On 5/12/07, Ulhas Joglekar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Reuters.com
CORRECTED - Brazil's racial income gap narrows-ILO
http://www.reuters.com/article/economicNews/idUSN0932446120070510
Thu May 10, 2007
(Corrects name of ILO director for Brazil)
BRASILIA, May 10 (Reuters) - Income inequality between races in Brazil has
narrowed over the past decade but a black woman still earns only half what a
white man makes, a United Nations report showed on Thursday.
The difference in income between blacks and whites in Brazil narrowed by 31
percent between 1995 and 2005, according to an International Labor
Organization study of global workplace discrimination.
The income gap narrowed because of successive minimum wage hikes, lower
inflation and declining real wages for white men, the report said.
It looks like contrasting Black-white voting preferences reflected
contrasting Black-white wage trends in Brazil.
<http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=35198>
ELECTIONS-BRAZIL:
Black Voters Crucial for Lula
Mario Osava
RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 23 (IPS) - Brazilians of African descent, who make
up 47 percent of a total population of 187 million, did not increase
their representation in parliament in the last elections, but are
proving to be a decisive force in the likely reelection of President
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
For the first time, surveys have reflected voting tendencies among
Brazil's largest ethnic groups. The Datafolha Institute, linked to the
newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo, found that 63 percent of the black
voters they interviewed around the country early this month said they
would vote for Lula in the Oct. 29 runoff.
By comparison, only 29 percent said they preferred opposition
candidate Geraldo Alckmin. Among "pardos" (brown), as Afro-descendants
of mixed ancestry are identified in the Brazilian census, the
difference was less marked: 54 to 40 percent.
Among white voters, meanwhile, 51 percent favoured Alckmin and 42
percent said they would vote for Lula.
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Yoshie
