This article analyses the impact of the Programa Bolsa Família (PBF), Brazil's Conditional Cash Transfer Programme), by way of an income shock on the labour supply of beneficiaries as measured by probability of working and number of weekly hours worked by both men and women. Bolsa Família...

Since the 1990s, Latin American governments have implemented various conditional cash transfer programmes (CCTs). The objective of CCTs is to alleviate poverty in the short run and create conditions for upward social mobility in the long run through human capital investments. CCTs target...

This article analyses the impact of the Programa Bolsa Família (PBF), Brazil?s Conditional Cash Transfer Programme), by way of an ?income shock? on the labour supply of beneficiaries as measured by probability of working and number of weekly hours worked by both men and women. Bolsa Família...

In 2006, the Bolsa Família Program completed its expansion, expecting to cover 11 million beneficiary families. The objective of this article is to evaluate whether this implied in deterioration in the program's efficient targeting and whether the target of 11 million families in fact covers...

Despite the recovery of economic growth in Latin America during the 1990s, rising unemployment, high informality rates and sluggish wages lie at the root of high inequality and poverty. This paper looks at changes in hourly earnings from the early 1990s to the early 2000s in three relatively...

O artigo apresenta diversas características dos dois principais programas focalizados de transferência de renda no Brasil, o Benefício de Prestação Continuada - BPC, e o Bolsa Família. Discute aspectos institucionais dos programas, sua sustentabilidade de longo prazo, seu público atendido...