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 … 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 …

This paper describes the evolution of poverty among pretos (black), pardos (brown/mixed) and brancos (white) from 2004 … to 2014, and investigates whether along with the already known reduction of poverty in the period there was also … reduction of the racial inequality of poverty. To do so, it presents the main indicators of the incidence, intensity and …

Herein a characterization of the evolution of extreme poverty and income inequality in Bahia is presented. Extreme … poverty and income inequality in Bahia fell twice from 1995 to 2009, in roughly the same periods, but at different pace. The … first fall begins in 1996. For extreme poverty, it was a sudden fall ending in 1997, whilst inequality kept falling till …