The purpose of this activity is to teach students about social entrepreneurship through hands on experience. This activity can begin before the course starts so that students will have an understanding of social entrepreneurship and discussions can begin during the first class meeting. On the...

This paper gives a demographic approach to the matter of the Brazilian demographic ageing. It discusses the relationship between ageing and dependence. It also tries to evaluate if to be elderly today, 1998, it is different of being elderly in the recent paste, 1981. The data utilized are from...

This paper analyses the situation of the Brazilian population disaggregated by urban/rural condition with respect to Social Insurance and Social Assistance with emphasis on recent changes. It starts with a historical overview of the system, but concentrates on new provisions mandated by the 1988...