This study aimed to trace the chain of relationships between contextual factors and built capacities in order to understand the process of transformations that have impacted the Single Registry for Social Programs (Cadastro Único para Programas Sociais - Cadastro Único) since its creation in...

Este documento explora a função dos vales sociais como um instrumento de inclusão social e desenvolvimento local. Apresenta uma tipologia dos vales e dos respetivos objetivos, que regem os quadros institucionais e regulamentares, a utilização pelos governos nacionais e locais e a economia...

This paper aims to carry out an exercise to measure the benefits of the social assistance policy, having as reference the conceptual framework of Ipea's Social Security Beneficiometer project (projeto Beneficiômetro da Seguridade Social do Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada - Ipea). In...

This paper aims to investigate income and poverty dynamics in Portugal, with a special focus on chronic poverty. The analysis of income distribution changes in a representative panel of households in Portugal allow us to understand prevailing income mobility patterns as well as quantify and...

This article investigates the effect of Fica Vivo program for homicide control started at the end of 2002 in Belo Horizonte and currently under the command of the Government of Minas Gerais. The study uses data from the census of 2000 accomplished by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and...

In the first section, this article discusses the concept of base retirement, its difference in relation to secured minimum income and to the World Bank's proposal, and complementary retirement, which is associated with base retirement. In the second section, in keeping with the previous...

Micro-credit and micro-finance emerged in the 1970’s in some Asian and Latin American countries as an instrument for fighting poverty and social exclusion. Using 2006-9 portuguese micro-level data, we estimate the failure rate of Portuguese micro-credit projects as 18,4%/year. This failure...

This article aims at verifying the potential effect of federal income transfer programs created over the last few years on poverty as measured by the income criterion. The indicators do not reflect actual results; rather, they refer to impact simulations had the programs been applied to their...

This article undertakes an economic evaluation of Fica Vivo Program in the slum of Morro das Pedras in Belo Horizonte. The cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analyses were run for the 2004-2006 period. The costs were accounted based on information by the Social Defense Secretary (SEDS) and the...