security in Brazil. Making a certain number of strong hypotheses relative to the fiscal incidence of social security financing … by the states and the Union). Our results indicate that the financing of social security in Brazil is only slightly …

Peru has made great progress in reducing poverty and inequality in the past decade alongside high economic growth …. Albeit this progress, the incidence of poverty and inequality remain high. This paper examines the distributional and poverty … poverty reduction. It decreases absolute poverty by 2-3 percentage points in terms of monetary income and up to 9 percentage …

poverty indices using SOEP data from 1991-2012. We distinguish between parental and publicly provided childcare, which is an … increasingly important in-kind benefit in Germany. We find that both multidimensional inequality and poverty declined as expanded …

poverty. We provide two empirical applications of our measure. First, we analyze the development of inequality in the US from …

macroeconomic performance is closely related to poverty and inequality, very few quantitative estimates are available in Brazil and … series to access the relation between this weak and unstable macroeconomic performance on poverty and inequality. The … particularly with poverty. However, since the variation in the monthly inflation rate over the past seventeen years has been very …

In this study we present evidence of the impact of demographic factors on the level of poverty based on the Brazilian … consequently on the level of poverty. We presented estimates of the impact on poverty of a series of alternative demographic … to a continuous reduction in poverty, which is equivalent to an additional 0.4 to 0.5 percentage point in annual growth …

role of financial markets in fostering economic development in Latin America. The analysis discusses: a) Brazil’s recent …