Plants have long provided and continue to provide vital resources for the discovery and development of medicines and for primary healthcare. The World Health Organisation (WHO, 2008) has estimated that for some Asian and African countries, close to 80 per cent of the population depend on...

Programas de obras públicas e de geração de emprego (PEPs, Public Employment Programmes) têm sido considerados marcos da assistência social. Porém, eles foram concebidos, em grande parte, como ?redes de segurança?, no contexto das intervenções e respostas anticíclicas contra choques,...

Since the late 1990s, conditional cash transfers (CCTs) have been broadly disseminated as one of the best practices in social protection. Brazil has been a pioneer in this area and today has one of the largest CCTs in the world, covering 26 per cent of the population. Created by the government...

To discuss the future of the Programa Bolsa Família it is necessary to acknowledge its dual nature?namely, a targeted minimum income programme and a targeted child allowance.

This paper investigates the impact of the pilot phase of Paraguay?s conditional cash transfer programme, Tekoporã, on the demand for healthcare and education, and how much of this impact was due to the cash transfers and/or due to changes in behaviour/preferences, possibly as an effect of...