Este texto estima os retornos educacionais e diferenciais raciais na distribuição de salários das mulheres no Brasil, usando regressão quantílica com correção semiparamétrica para viés de seleção amostral. As estimativas mostram que os retornos educacionais são elevados e que não...

The Bolsa Familia Programme (PBF) is a conditional cash transfer (CCT) programme which is aimed at guaranteeing a minimum level of income to poor families and at the same time promoting access to education and health services by beneficiary children, and to social assistance more generally by...

Social transfers are increasingly seen as a key tool in Eastern and Southern Africa to combat the triple threat of chronic poverty, hunger and HIV/AIDS. Targeting effectiveness in defining which groups are eligible and how these groups are identified is fundamental to the impact of these...

The objective of this study is to assess the implications of Brazil?s conditional cash transfer programme, the "Bolsa Familia" Programme (hereinafter the ?PBF?), for the Decent Work Agenda. The Decent Work Agenda first emerged in a report by the Director-General of the ILO in June 1999. Decent...

Esta revista discute inovações e perspectivas de políticas públicas na Índia, Brasil e África do Sul (IBAS) em relação a transferências de renda, programas de emprego e acesso a medicamentos essenciais. Esta publicação é resultado do Fórum Acadêmico do IBAS: Um Diálogo de...

Soares (2012) argues that differences in the original design of Oportunidades and Bolsa Família as well as the distinct role these programmes play in the broader social protection systems of México and Brazil respectively are key in helping illuminate the nature of the incremental changes that...

El Salvador?s Red Solidaria was designed in 2005 as a Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programme with the traditional objectives of short-term poverty alleviation and incentives for investment in human capital. In addition to the CCT component, it had two other components: one related to...