This article search to evaluate the impacts of the General Regimen of Social Security (RGPS) on the well-being of the society and on some macroeconomic variables. The analysis will be made by means of the numerical simulation of a model of overlapping generations, calibrated to reproduce the...

This paper tries do motivate the discussion of evaluation problems in the context of social programs. Initially, the text explores the point of view that social programs should be recognized as complex organizations. In the case, there are multiple objectives, decentralization, and coordination...