Based on data from the Brazilian National Household Sample Survey (PNAD Contínua/ IBGE 2019), we compare the current benefit model for the Bolsa Família programme (whose main strategy for fighting extreme poverty consists of a top-up benefit) with a microssimulation of an alternative flat-rate...

This study draws on the recent release of complete information about earnings from the National Longitudinal Household Survey (Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios Contínua - PNAD Contínua) for 2012-2018, to evaluate the targeting of the Bolsa Família Programme. The results confirm...

The employer`s payroll contribution for pension system relief has been one of the most important topic on the debate about social security. Some advocates that the traditional source of funds for pension system tends to undergo a process of erosion.And there are critics, who argue that there is...

The National Forum for Social Security (FNPS) was the main happening occurred in 2007 for people interested on this subject. Long term forecasts for the General Regime of Social Security (RGPS), produced by the Secretariat for Social Security Policies (SPS/MPS), were strongly debated during the...

The objective of this paper is to propose a universal child grant for Brazil. We will discuss the rationality behind the proposal, how best to design it, its initial operational set-up,its costs, and some of its distributive aspects. The proposed allowance is based on the unification of the...

The objectives of this paper are i) to assess the recent changes in the "actuarial factor" and their distributive and financial impacts in the short and long term. The actuarial factor was created in 1999 to adjust the individual benefit level according to age, time of contribution and life...

Conditional cash transfer programmes have been increasingly adopted by several low and middle-income countries. Despite this overall acceptance, conditionalities remain under scrutiny regarding their possible independent effects on educational and health indicators. This paper is an ecological...

What are the possible impacts of social protection benefits on economic growth? Although the main objective of these benefits is to protect people from poverty, shocks and social risks - and not promote economic growth - this question pervades both the theoretical and the empirical literature on...

Based on data from the Brazilian National Household Sample Survey (PNAD Contínua/ IBGE 2019), we compare the current benefit model for the Bolsa Família programme (whose main strategy for fighting extreme poverty consists of a top-up benefit) with a microssimulation of an alternative flat-rate...

Conditional cash transfer programmes have been increasingly adopted by several lowand middle-income countries. Despite this overall acceptance, conditionalities remain under scrutiny regarding their possible independent effects on educational and health indicators. This paper is an ecological...