This paper investigates the following questions: what were the effects of the 1990s economic reforms on employment, wages, income inequality indicators and international competitiveness? Did economic reforms cause major or minor effects on the economy? Who were the gainers and the losers of the...

This work is an outcome of a broader research agenda that aims at assessing the efficiency of some remarkable Brazilian Government's social programs. Here, efficiency means the actual (observed)/optimal (targets) ratio for both inputs and outputs that the programs use to achieve their...