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Evaluating the impact of conditional cash transfer programs : lessons from Latin America

Rawlings, Laura - 2003

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Brazil - Early Child Development : A Focus on the Impact of Preschools

World Bank - 2013

The report focuses on preschool, as an effective early childhood development (ECD) intervention, especially for improving the status of the poorest groups in Brazil's population. Because of data limitations, the focus is primarily on pre-schooling, with some discussions on day care, and other...

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Brazil : Critical Issues in Social Security, Volume 2. Policy Report

World Bank - 2013

The study consists of two volumes, the first volume contains a detailed summary of the report findings, and policy implications, and, the second volume, the Policy Report, contains discussions on policy recommendations for each of the components of the Brazilian social security system. An...

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Integrated urban upgrading for the poor : the experience of Ribeira Azul, Brazil

Baker, Judy L. - 2006

"This study looks at the experience of integrated urban upgrading in a low-income neighborhood of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Infrastructure and social investments have been made in the community through a government program, with community participation playing a major role in the design and...

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Structural change and poverty reduction in Brazil : the impact of the DOHA round

Mauricio - 2006

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 …

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Poverty in the Brazilian Amazon : an assessment of poverty focused on the state of Pará

Verner, Dorte - 2004

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Brazil - Growth and Poverty Reduction in Rio Gande Do Norte : A State Economic Memorandum

World Bank - 2013

Brazil was the fastest growing country in the world between 1930 and 1995, with an average annual growth rate of 6.1 percent. By 2000, Brazil's per-capita income stood at R$6,500. While RN's per capita income is slightly above half the national average, it increased from 43 percent of the...

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Brazil : Trade Policies to Improve Efficiency, Increase Growth, and Reduce Poverty

World Bank - 2013

This comprehensive report-actually four compartmentalized reports in one-- focuses on policies to improve Brazil's trade performance. Specifically, three questions are addressed: What are the merits of alternative trade liberalization or integration options ? What domestic policies should be...

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Attacking Brazil's Poverty : A Poverty Report with a Focus on Urban Poverty Reduction Policies, Volume 1. Summary Report

World Bank - 2013

policies and indicators. The second central message is that poverty remains unacceptably high for a country with Brazil …'s average income levels. The worst remaining income poverty is mostly concentrated in the Northeast region, and in the smaller … further improvements in social indicators, including the objective of reducing the rate of extreme income poverty by 50 …

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Brazil - Attacking Brazil's Poverty : A Poverty Report with a Focus on Urban Poverty Reduction Policies (Vol. 2 of 2) - Main Report

World Bank - 2013

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