ABSTRACT
Homicide in Brazil increased by 160 percent during the period 1977 to 1994 and is attributed to Brazil's economic instability and increasing social inequality. Clearly, having a 'monopoly on information' serves to reinforce social inequality, supports rent-seeking and detracts from good governance and therefore development. With the notion of social and or natural justice interjected in the interest of reducing inequality, competition and competitiveness have tended to be posed as questions and in terms of their impact on development. In developed countries, the social justice imperative implicit in regulation is designed to deal with asymmetries arising from the incompleteness of the self-regulating mechanism in a market economy. Interns of impact, there are several studies on the correlation between the distribution of resources and social inequality from which to draw. Government-funded social services - education healthcare, and employment retraining - pursued as a matter of policy to enhance human capability and reduce relative poverty.
