This article presents income-based indicators using the data from the 2004 Brazilian National Household Survey regarding poverty and indigence in 2004. It refers to spatial characteristics of poverty, as well as its relation with the functioning of the labor market and the way family income is...

Este texto reúne evidências empíricas recentes sobre a queda da desigualdade de renda no Brasil. O ponto de partida é a contribuição de cada tipo de renda para a queda do coeficiente de Gini da renda domiciliar per capita no período 1997-2009. Discutem-se a seguir as características de...

</titre> <alinea/> This article discusses the role social security and means-tested transfers play on poverty and income inequality in Brazil. Firstly, it briefly describes the different types of cash transfers within both social security and social assistance systems. Then, using simulations based on micro-data...

Having as departing point the continuous decrease of poverty indicators in Brazil since 2004, this article examines some aspects related to the expansion of targeted income transfers. It analyses the Family Stipend Program, which unifies the set of different federal transfer programs created...