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This research analyzes the principal conditions that allowed the development of national cash transfer programs in the social protection systems of Brazil, Argentina and South Africa. The main focuses are the political and institutional conditions for the emergence and development of these...
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Since the last decade, there has been much debate on the central government's activism in the implementation of development policies that resemble those from Brazil's authoritarian past. However, only rarely, scholars and practitioners have discussed the state capacities that are necessary to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011372208
The analysis of the relations between the Executive and Legislative Federal, in Brazil, relate the support of the partisan coalition to government initiatives in Congress with the parties'representation of the base in the ministries. These approaches suppose an understanding that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011372340
Since the last decade, there has been much debate on the central government's activism in the implementation of development policies that resemble those from Brazil's authoritarian past. However, only rarely, scholars and practitioners have discussed the state capacities that are necessary to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010405060
The analysis of the relations between the Executive and Legislative Federal, in Brazil, relate the support of the partisan coalition to government initiatives in Congress with the parties'representation of the base in the ministries. These approaches suppose an understanding that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010490923
This research analyzes the principal conditions that allowed the development of national cash transfer programs in the social protection systems of Brazil, Argentina and South Africa. The main focuses are the political and institutional conditions for the emergence and development of these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010490928
This paper provides a preliminary analysis of the potential impacts from a formalization policy introduced in Brazil targeted at micro entrepreneurs with at most one employee. Our goal is to provide evidence to shed light on the following points: i) Did the program fostered micro...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011372256
of formalization policies. I estimate the model and use it analyze the two main policy approaches towards informality …: increasing the costs of informality (the stick), and reducing the costs of formality (the carrot). The results show that there … welfare effects. Under either approach, informality reductions are not necessarily associated to welfare gains. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330881
The current paper starts from the premise that the dynamic of the construction of informality and semiformality in the … another. Thus, informality is not, in the Brazilian case, a necessarily pernicious phenomenon that must be "eradicated" so … apparatus, that comes close to this informality, so that it can be integrated in the rule of law, as it is of the real world. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011818811
This paper presents the results of qualitative research conducted with the Decent Work Subcommittee members for Youth in December 2013. The research aimed to know perceptions and opinions of representatives of governments, workers and employers about the causes, difficulties, progress and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444803