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Providing access to education for low-income populations is essential to reduce inequalities and promote social … inclusion. Although the spatial dimension of inequalities in access to education has received attention in recent studies, there … public transport, the study investigates education- -related social exclusion in the intra-urban scale as well as across …
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Providing access to education for low-income populations is essential to reduce inequalities and promote social … inclusion. Although the spatial dimension of inequalities in access to education has received attention in recent studies, there … public transport, the study investigates education- -related social exclusion in the intra-urban scale as well as across …
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The survey aims to review the empirical literature about the impacts of trade liberalization on the labor markets of developed and developing countries, with a special emphasis on the Brazilian case. A general result is the change in the structure of the labor demand in favor of skilled workers....
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Herein, the influence of institutions and of social and political preferences upon the design and the implementation of the Brazilian non contributive income cash transfer to the elderly and disabled poor - Benefício de Prestação Continuada (BPC) - is analyzed. The main argument is that...
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An essential question about policies that aim to foster socio-economic inclusion and income generation - which is the case of policies that support market access - is their capacity to guarantee a sustainable process of the economic capacities of their beneficiaries. In this study, the Brazilian...
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The impact of Programa Bolsa Família in reducing extreme poverty has its roots on the program's precision as well as coverage. Its results are only hindered by the modest values transferred, totaling only 0,5% of the Brazilian GDP in the hands of the poorest quartile. Notwithstanding the...
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The Programa Crescer is a sub-program under the Programa Nacional de Microcredito Produtivo Orientado (PNMPO), considered a microcredit policy aimed at low-income formal and informal micro-entrepreneurs, providing credit without collateral and with interest rates subsidized by the Governo...
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In this paper we analyze Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios Contínua (PNAD Contínua) microdata from 2012 to 2018 to document how the mid-decade economic recession reversed the trend of pro-poor growth that dated back to the early 2000s. Since the recession, there was a rise in...
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