In the recent study, we attempt to contribute to clarify the discussion of targeting and universalization by analyzing fundamental theoretical, ethical, analytical, and empirical concepts involved. We believe that by precisely defining these concepts we may also contribute to the development of...

The causes of informality are many and range from imperfections in existing legislation and segmentation of the labor markets to macroeconomic adjustment programs and globalization. Some see in informality a mechanism for escaping unemployment, while for others it generates a spirit of...

The objective of this work is to present the main changes in education and health financing in Brazil during the 1995-2002 period, which brought important improvements in the recent performance and will continue for the future in these sectors, with utmost importance to the reduction of the...

The aim of this study is to produce a document for the Inter-American Bank's Poverty and Social Protection Network which will allow a comparative vision to be structured on the Sole Information Systems on Beneficiaries (SISB) which several countries in the region have implemented.

This work will try to measure the differentiated effect that the changes in the economic conditions have on the families in terms of labor participation of the spouses and other members of the family, as well as its effect on the scholar attendance of children and young people.

Our aim in this document is, exactly, to present this transition between the paradigms in the case of Brazil, and to develop a central point in this transition: the construction process of the Unique Register (RU) [Cadastro Único]* for the families placed under the poverty line.

Over the last decades, social policy has been conceived from a sectorial perspective. This means that social policy responds more to government's organizational activities than to people's necessities; as if social problems could be approached from a unilateral perspective; in the same way that...

This presentation was commissioned by the Poverty Reduction and Social Protection Network of the Regional Policy Dialogue for the IV Hemispheric Meeting celebrated on November 11th and 12th, 2002. ODEF initiated operating in 1985 and the credit program in 1989. Became self-sufficient in 1996. It...

A apresentação trata da organização "Balcão de Direitos", um projeto montado pela ONG Movimento Viva Rio a partir de 1997 para facilitar o acesso à Justiça a comunidades de baixa renda da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro. Apresentação durante o Fórum Interamericano sobre Segurança e...

This presentation was commissioned by the Poverty Reduction and Social Protection Network of the Regional Policy Dialogue for the VII Hemispheric Meeting celebrated on November 11th and 12th, 2004. In the ¿90, there have been created more than 70 programs to fight the poverty, depending on 7...