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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 …
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intensity of routine tasks embodied in them in explaining changes in employment and earnings in Brazil, in particular their …
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The purpose of this article is to provide new evidence about the sources of regional income inequalities in Brazil …
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Policy frames in Brazil have long run up against conflicting visions and understandings about the causes and … poverty and wellbeing. This framing is reflective of Brazil's national narrative on race relations and the idea that class and … employment status have been the most salient barriers to social welfare protections. Brazil's widely well-regarded anti …
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In this paper, we analyse the patterns and trends of group-based inequalities in Brazil in the past 30 years. Using … inequalities between different 'ethnic' groups. Our results show that the trend toward greater equality in Brazil shown in other …
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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 …
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During the 2000s Mexico grew less than the average for Latin America. Labour market indicators exhibited mixed changes, with improvements over the period for some of them and deterioration for others. The country was severely hurt by the international crisis of 2008, but Mexico surpassed its...
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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 …
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. Our paper uses national data from Brazil between 2002 and 2013 to examine retrospectively how it has performed on some of …
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This paper develops a new imputation methodology applied to missing incomes values in PNAD. PNAD is the main Brazilian household survey, but it has no imputation. The imputation process starts by fitting regression models applied to different income sources considering the complex sampling...
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