) adequacy of pension benefits; iv) (simulated) effects of pension and welfare benefits on poverty; v) the contribution of …

project that would overcome the rural-urban dichotomy. Their socioeconomic conditions showed improvement in poverty indicators …

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 …

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 …

In this paper we evaluate how well-targeted and effective in reducing poverty the Bolsa Família Program (PBF) was in … Social Protection Indicators of Resilience and Equity (Aspire). We calculate several different targeting and poverty … poverty line or targeting metric used. With respect to the effect on poverty reduction, the results suggest an important role …