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Imbalance, inequality, equity, and adjustment in Pay-As-You-Go pension systems in developing countries : an empirical analysis with data from Brazil

Moreira, Ajax; Foguel, Miguel Nathan; Ferreira, Sérgio … - 2022

Using an empirical age-period-cohort model we analyze the effects of different Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) public pension systems on financial imbalance, on inequality in permanent income, and on the rate of return of social security assets of heterogeneous agents in terms of gender and education....

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Avaliação da eficiência dos centros de referência de assistência social no Brasil

da Silva, Ângelo Henrique Lopes; Sawaya Neto, Melchior; … - 2015

Brazilian Welfare Policy, in its basic protection dimension, is implemented by public structures called as Referencial Centers of Social Assistence (Cras), which work at the local level (municipalities), but are organized, coordinated, legislated and co-financed by the federal government. This...

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Capacidades estatais para a implementação de programas de transferência de renda: Os casos de Brasil, Argentina e África do Sul

Bichir, Renata Mirandola - 2015

This research analyzes the principal conditions that allowed the development of national cash transfer programs in the social protection systems of Brazil, Argentina and South Africa. The main focuses are the political and institutional conditions for the emergence and development of these...

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Capacidades estatais no programa bolsa família: O desafio de consolidação do sistema único de assistência social

Coutinho, Diogo R. - 2013

In a slow process marked by authoritarian moments, regressive effects, bureaucratic insulation, centralized arrangements and cronyism, since the 1930s Brazil has been building its Welfare State. In the wake of struggles and political clashes for ensuring rights and reviving democracy, the...

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Distribuição de renda nos anos 2010: Uma década perdida para desigualdade e pobreza

Barbosa, Rogério J.; Soares, Sergei - 2020

In this paper we analyze Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios Contínua (PNAD Contínua) microdata from 2012 to 2018 to document how the mid-decade economic recession reversed the trend of pro-poor growth that dated back to the early 2000s. Since the recession, there was a rise in...

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The state and income inequality in Brazil

Souza, Marcelo Medeiros Coelho de; Souza, Pedro H. G. F. de - 2015

Using a factor decomposition of the Gini coefficient we measure the contribution to inequality of direct monetary income flows to and from the Brazilian State. The income flows from the State include public servants' earnings, Social Security pensions, unemployment benefits and Social Assistance...

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The effects of conditionality monitoring on educational outcomes : evidence from Brazil's Bolsa Família programme

Paiva, Luis Henrique; Soares, Fabio Veras; Cireno, Flavio; … - 2016

Conditional cash transfer programmes have been increasingly adopted by several low and middle-income countries. Despite this overall acceptance, conditionalities remain under scrutiny regarding their possible independent effects on educational and health indicators. This paper is an ecological...

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Cash benefits to disabled persons in Brazil : an analysis of BPC : continuous cash benefit programme

Souza, Marcelo Medeiros Coelho de; Diniz, Déborah; … - 2015

The paper presents an analysis of the Continuous Cash Benefit Programme (BPC, which stands for Benefício de Prestação Continuada in Portuguese), an unconditional cash transfer to the elderly or to extremely poor individuals with disabilities. The information used in the assessment stems from...

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Violence and birth outcomes : evidence from homicides in Brazil

Koppensteiner, Martin; Manacorda, Marco - 2014

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Murder nature weather and violent crime in Brazil

Ishak, Phoebe W. - 2021

This paper examines the effect of weather shocks on violent crime using disaggregated data from Brazilian … increase in violent crime, with the effect appearing to persist beyond the growing season and over the medium run. To explain … the overall economic activity. Moreover, evidence shows the dominance of opportunity cost mechanism re ected in the …

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