This paper aims at analyzing the contribution of social policies to declining rates of income inequalities in Brazil … since the 1990s. Based on a framework of historical institutionalism, Brazil is characterised as a traditionally patrimonial …

Building democracy in an emerging society : challenges of the welfare state in Brazil / Sonia Fleury -- Inequality … and social policies : towards inclusive development / Jan Nederveen Pieterse -- Brazil's labor market : limitations and … opportunities for emancipation / Adalberto Cardoso -- Social movements and emancipation in Brazil / Ilse Scherer-Warren -- MST …

Policy frames in Brazil have long run up against conflicting visions and understandings about the causes and … poverty and wellbeing. This framing is reflective of Brazil's national narrative on race relations and the idea that class and … employment status have been the most salient barriers to social welfare protections. Brazil's widely well-regarded anti …

security in Brazil. Making a certain number of strong hypotheses relative to the fiscal incidence of social security financing … by the states and the Union). Our results indicate that the financing of social security in Brazil is only slightly …