With plenty of merits, Seguro Defeso (a kind of unemployment benefit) is a program located at the confluence of social and environmental policies, defined after the Constitution of 1988 in Brazil. It supports artisanal fishermen, unable to subsist based on their work during certain period of the...

With plenty of merits, Seguro Defeso (a kind of unemployment benefit) is a program located at the confluence of social and environmental policies, defined after the Constitution of 1988 in Brazil. It supports artisanal fishermen, unable to subsist based on their work during certain period of the...

Portuguese Abstract: Neste artigo, avaliamos os efeitos da incidência conjunta das quedas do nível de ocupação, do Programa Emergencial de Preservação do Emprego e da Renda (Medida Provisória 936/2020) e da Renda Básica Emergencial (Lei 13.982/2020) sobre a distribuição da renda...

This paper describes the implementation process of the Transnordestina Railway, which has been built under the scope of the Institutional Constraints on Implementation of Investment in Infrastructure project in Brazil. It looks for answering questions as such: Which institutional factors...

This study aimed to analyze the budget trajectory of the Workers' Support Fund (FAT), contrasting accounting indicators with political and economic factors that may have conditioned its operational planning. The data analysis allowed us to corroborate the hypothesis that the evolution of both...

Using a randomized trial, we look at employment and earnings of a youth training program in Brazil that uses arts and theater-based pedagogic tools. The evidence we present shows youth benefit both in the short- and medium-term. The impacts are economically large, compared to those typically...

The theme of this text is the construction of state capacities to enable medium and long term investment. The focus was on the relationship between public funds and state financial agents in the formation of institutional arrangements for the financing of economic development, based on a...

This text aimed to provide an analytical framework about the recent repertoire of public policies to combat poverty and income inequality, its most central characteristics and how productive inclusion programs are part of this strategy. To this end, an overview was drawn up that characterizes...

This article presents the results of an impact assessment of the Employment and Income Generation Program (Proger) - a loan program to small e medium sized firms conducted by the Brazilian government - on formal employment, payroll and unjustified dismissals. Two sources of data were used in the...

This study analyzes the most relevant political and economic factors that conditioned the institutionalization trajectory of the brazilian Public Employment, Labor and Income System (SPETR). For this, the analytical focus was the financing mechanisms of the Fund of Support to the Worker. Based...