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 … inequality than universal transfers. The hybrid model presents results close to those estimated for the targeted model and has …

. 287/2016) on poverty and inequality has been largely impressionistic to date. The present study tries to bridge this gap … the comparison of poverty and inequality indicators observed in 2015 with estimates for the full implementation of two …-the-minimum-wage poverty line) from the current 9.4 per cent to 11.1 per cent. Inequality would increase marginally. The Legislative version …

poverty and inequality. To that end, we have used data from the 2001-2015 standard National Household Sample Survey (Pesquisa … income as reflected by PNAD (0.7 per cent), the programme has such a significant impact on poverty reduction: its transfers … reduce poverty by 15 per cent and extreme poverty by 25 per cent. Dynamic decompositions of the Gini coefficient suggest that …