This study evaluates the two main national programs for public purchases of products from family farming in Brazil: the Food Acquisition Program (PAA) and the National School Feeding Program (PNAE). The proposed objective was to analyze the impact of these programs on the income of suppliers in...

The study examines the extent to which the Legislative Branch is involved in the processing of economic policies sent by the Executive Branch, as part of the process of political delegation. It argues that, as the PT administrations adopted a developmentalist economic paradigm, increasing the...

This study analyzes the implementation of unemployment insurance in Brazil, with an emphasis on the patterns of repeated access to the benefit by workers with formal employment relationships. We consider two subperiods - 2007-2012 and 2014-2019 - which, in addition to being different in the...

The Food Acquisition Program (PAA) is a federal government public procurement program created to support family farming and combat food and nutritional insecurity. This study analyzed the incentive provided by the PAA for agroecological and organic production in family farming, addressing the...

The objective of this investigation was to analyze the characteristics of the agricultural structures of Brazilian family farming, in its multi-scale forms, as well as its aspects of location and specialization. Therefore, it was observed that the production structure of family farming in Brazil...

The population of people with disabilities in Brazil is estimated at 18.6 million people, corresponding to approximately 8.9% of the population aged 2 years or older. Statistical data indicate significant inequalities in the areas of education and employment, as well as regional disparities...

This Discussion Paper describes the changes brought about by the 2019 reform in the federal Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) and the developments in the states, the Federal District and municipalities. Regarding the states and the Federal District, we analyze the details of the new...

The goal was to analyze the trend of agricultural support in the European Union (EU), China, the United States of America (USA), and Japan from 2000 to 2022. Producer Support Estimate (PSE) and Consumer Support Estimate (CSE) estimates organized by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and...

The objective of this study is to evaluate the costs and benefits of different demand risk sharing rules for road infrastructure concessions, from the point of view of the economic attractiveness of the projects for the concessionaire and the price reduction for users. The traffic trajectory of...

The municipal targets for the coverage of poor and low-incomes families in the Cadastro Único have remained unchanged for the past 12 years. Updating these targets is complicated by the existence of substantial differences between the Cadastro Único and national household surveys. This paper...