Employment is key to combating poverty. Thus, detractors of social assistance programs argue that they create … eligibility rule of the Bolsa Familia program in Brazil, one of the oldest and largest conditional cash transfers in the world, to …

between social protection programs and labor supply and productivity. This focus relates to the debates in Brazil surrounding … the issue of helping transfer beneficiaries graduate from poverty and from dependence on transfer incomes. The AAA is … enhance the employability of the poor, help promote their graduation from poverty, and, ultimately, from dependence on …

During the pandemic, Brazil has provided its citizens with support in the areas of long-term care and disability, the … family benefits (including labor policies), as these were the most crucial social policies implemented in Brazil during the … Covid-19 pandemic in terms of the resources allocated and the magnitude of social impact. Brazil’s relatively generous …

middle income countries that examined optimal approaches to reduce child poverty using universal categorical child allowances … margins of the poverty line were found to be small and robustness and sensitivity tests were done to accompany simulation …. Simulations found that individual level allowances reduce poverty more than household level allowances. Such individual level …