The health care system in Brazil has established the important principle of universal coverage, yet, it faces several … focuses on the health care system, particularly on enhancing maternal and prenatal health, certain health care interventions … maternal and child health risks is the concentration of illness and death among the poor : infant mortality rates jump 80 …

household labor income and poverty in Brazil. The authors first estimate the extent of price transmission from world markets to … employment depending on worker characteristics. Finally, they measure the impact on household income of a 10 percent increase in … opportunities and experience larger wage increases. More interestingly, households at the top of the income distribution experience …

"Measured by the Gini coefficient, income inequality in Brazil rose from 0.57 in 1981 to 0.63 in 1989, before falling …). Poverty incidence also followed an inverted U-curve over the past quarter century, rising from 0.30 in 1981 to 0.33 in 1993 … social assistance transfers targeted to the poor; and a possible decline in racial inequality. Although poverty dynamics …

"This study looks at the experience of integrated urban upgrading in a low-income neighborhood of Salvador, Bahia …

its connected poverty trends. The main focus of the authors is understanding, for the case of Brazil, how a trade shock … interacts with these structural forces and ascertaining whether it enhances or hinders medium-term poverty reduction. In … particular, they consider the interactions between the migration of labor out of agriculture, a potentially important poverty …