can accommodate. Through the development of economically via ble areas in the hinterlands, Brazil hopes to reverse the flow of this human tide.
Income distribution is highly skewed in Brazil. In Bra zil, the richest 10 percent of the population receive 50.6 percent of national income (The World Bank, 1989). That pro portion compares to 40.6 percent in Mexico, and the 26.6 per cent in the United States (The World Bank, 1989). The richest 420 percent of Brazilians control two thirds of national income, compared to 57.7 percent in Mexico, and 42.8 percent in the United States (The World Bank, 1989). Brazil has a two tiered economy almost as if there are two countries within a single country one developing country, and one developed country (Wood, 1987). The undeveloped Brazil is approximately twice the size in population as is the developed Brazil. These ine quities must be corrected, if the country is to avoid chaos, or, as Brazilian president Sarney said, to avoid "setting the fire to the powder keg" (Wood, 1987, 25).
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