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...

This paper discusses pathways to gradually bring about changes in the Student Financing Fund (Fies) with the aim of enabling a broader, more equitable, effective, and efficient student financing model in Brazil. Proposed reforms encompass three dimensions: i) access and enrolment; ii)...

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 country's higher education system assumed a new geographical configuration in the twenty-first century, under the impulse of two simultaneous processes of growth and reagglomeration, both characterized by a spatially less concentrated pattern. Thus, in addition to an evolution that has...

This discussion paper presents a narrative review (non-systematic) of the specialized literature, particularly the empirical approach covering the period 2009-2021, on selected aspects of the MEI. The results and impacts analyzed, which are not exhaustive, indicate points where the MEI would...

This discussion paper presents a comparative analysis of the market structure and charging of the main public services charged, considering some tariff charging parameters raised for each of them. The services considered in the analysis are sanitation, waste, transport, energy and telephony...

This article analyzes the institutional evolution of the Benefício de Prestação Continuada (BPC) since its adoption in 1988 and its first regulation in 1993. Based on the theoretical framework of historical institutionalism and the notion of policy paradigm, which guided a historical analysis...

This text set out to survey long-term trends in the Ministry of Education - MEC budget. A first point was the construction of a twenty-year series of commitments settled in the MEC budget in open public consultations available to the general public. Having done this, a second point, already...

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...