poverty and inequality. To that end, we have used data from the 2001-2015 standard National Household Sample Survey (Pesquisa … excellent targeting explains why, despite its small budget (0.5 per cent of GDP) and its limited representation in household … income as reflected by PNAD (0.7 per cent), the programme has such a significant impact on poverty reduction: its transfers …

trade-offs of benefit designs, estimating costs and impacts on poverty and inequality and assessing operational and … the models that are strongly progressive (the targeted and the hybrid models) are more efficient to reduce poverty and … the advantage of providing coverage to a public that is frequently at risk of poverty (children and adolescents). This …

2000s. Since the recession, there was a rise in inequality and poverty levels and aggregate welfare decreased. While … transfers and unemployment compensation failed to address rising inequality and poverty in any significant way. At the same time …-off. Finally, we show that in the past few years poverty rates were much more sensitive to changes in inequality than in average …

In this paper we evaluate how well-targeted and effective in reducing poverty the Bolsa Família Program (PBF) was in … Brazil between 2004 and 2019. In order to do this, we use data from the National Household Sample Survey (PNAD) from 2004 to … 2015, from the Continuous National Household Sample Survey (PNAD Continuous) from 2012 to 2019, and from the Atlas of …