In a slow process marked by authoritarian moments, regressive effects, bureaucratic insulation, centralized arrangements and cronyism, since the 1930s Brazil has been building its Welfare State. In the wake of struggles and political clashes for ensuring rights and reviving democracy, the...

This article analyzes the situation of social isolation among the elderly, considering both its impacts on health and well-being and the interventions that have been mobilized to combat it. Based on international literature on the topic, the first part of the text discusses the negative...

The development of several policies and research projects rely on data on the population socioeconomic characteristics and on the spatial distribution of economic activities and public services. Nonetheless, these data in Brazil are often difficult to access, require large computational power to...

One of the main goals of transportation policies is to improve the people's access to employment opportunities, public services, and amenities. For this reason, an increasing number of transportation and funding agencies have sought to incorporate accessibility studies in the planning and...

The objective of this text is to rescue the perspective of social welfare macro sectorial analysis. The emergence of social security and the interrelation among social security, social assistance and health policies are analyzed, at first, from a historical and conceptual perspective and...

This paper presents a simplified methodology for estimating quarterly figures for both the Brazilian government transfers and net aggregate tax burden in the 1995-2007 years. It also describes the main stylized facts observed in the data in this period, calling attention to the fact that...