central importance to the Brazilian government: inflation and social inclusion. We describe how political institutions in … Brazil in the past 25 years have given rise to a policy-making process where fiscal stability and social inclusion are the … benefits from agricultural production, given that Brazil is a major exporter of commodities. Also, before the crisis the …

This paper discusses data from a survey and in-depth interviews on elite perceptions of poverty in Brazil. De Swaan … reduction. This paper questions if de Swaan's analysis applies to Brazil. The main finding is that two parts of de Swaan …

earnings inequality in Brazil and South Africa. While both countries have had declines in schooling inequality, only Brazil has …

During the 2000s, Brazil experienced slow economic growth and a substantial improvement in labour market indicators …. From 2001 to 2012, Brazil grew less than the Latin American average. However, the unemployment rate decreased, the …

This paper assesses causes and consequences of fiscal redistribution in Brazil. The framework proposed allows … attempt to gauge actual fiscal policy redistribution changes over time in Brazil. The study develops an empirical methodology …

, inequality, and social welfare in Brazil from 2007 to 2015. This exercise holds the promise of adding more realistic top income …

variable and measurement error biases possibly affect econometric estimates of these effects. Brazil experienced a sharp fall … evolution of the returns to education in Brazil using variable premiums by education level, quantile regressions, and pseudo …

. Our paper uses national data from Brazil between 2002 and 2013 to examine retrospectively how it has performed on some of …