Multiple Choice
Brazil's growth rate during the 1960s was 6.0 percent when poverty weights were used to evaluate growth, compared with 8.2 percent when GNP weights were used to evaluate growth. One can conclude from these numbers that
A) average income growth was greater for poor households than for rich households.
B) average income growth was greater for rich households than for poor households.
C) more and more households were falling below the poverty line.
D) the size distribution of income was getting worse.
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