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This text aims to offer three contributions to the study of Brazilian public expenditures on health and education … Brazilian states and thousands of Brazilian municipalities. They sugggest also that Brazilian public expenditures on health and …
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their costs and impacts on the health system. In addition, we also discuss challenges to its development and to how …
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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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of the document "Brazil: the state of the Union - 2007". Health outcomes in the last decades, health policies after 1988 … and the role of the government in health care are analyzed. Regarding this last topic, problems related to financing …, sector regulation and services production by the Unified Health System are discussed. The study shows that, despite …
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levels can access job opportunities, health services and education. Thus, these policies have important implications for the … opportunities, health and education services for the population of different income levels. The study presents -post and …
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In the period 2001-2011, we had a strong increase in private credit in Brazil, which increased from 27.2% to 51.6% of gross domestic product (GDP). In addition, private credit with free resources (with interest rates freely negotiated in the market, without subsidies and without direction) went...
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This text aims to analyse the New Development Bank (NDB) established by BRICS as part of the group's financial architecture, focusing on the main motivations for its creation, ways of acting and governance structure. Although focused on providing credit for infrastructure and sustainable...
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This paper discusses the differences between the Annual Continuous PNAD and the recently discontinued Annual PNAD, both surveys developed by IBGE; the relevant distinctions on the social security dimension between the two surveys; the guidelines and the official methodology adopted for measuring...
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