A presentation of remittances, money transfer companies and costs of service in 14 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean.

A presentation of remittances, money transfer companies and costs of service in 14 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean.

Using a factor decomposition of the Gini coefficient we measure the contribution to inequality of direct monetary transfers to and from the Brazilian State. Among the transfers from the State are wages of public workers, pensions and social assistance; the transfers to the State are direct taxes....

Based on data from the Brazilian National Household Sample Survey (PNAD Contínua/ IBGE 2019), we compare the current benefit model for the Bolsa Família programme (whose main strategy for fighting extreme poverty consists of a top-up benefit) with a microssimulation of an alternative flat-rate...

This study analyzes the most relevant political and economic factors that conditioned the institutionalization trajectory of the brazilian Public Employment, Labor and Income System (SPETR). For this, the analytical focus was the financing mechanisms of the Fund of Support to the Worker. Based...