This study aims to analyze the distributional effects of carbon pricing in Brazil. The subject has gained importance with initiatives such as the PMR Brazil Project and RenovaBio, but discussions have been limited to the possible loss of competitiveness of national products. Thus, scenarios...

The Programa Crescer is a sub-program under the Programa Nacional de Microcredito Produtivo Orientado (PNMPO), considered a microcredit policy aimed at low-income formal and informal micro-entrepreneurs, providing credit without collateral and with interest rates subsidized by the Governo...

This text continues previous studies, carried out at Ipea, which analyze the spending of the three levels of government in financing the Unified Health System (SUS). Taking the period from 2010 to 2022 as a basis, the study analyzes the behavior of spending on health actions and services (ASPS)...

This study aims to analyze the agricultural contribution to the Brazilian trade balance from 1989 to 2022 and identify the products with a major share in such results. Moreover, it investigates the changes in the products of the Brazilian agricultural trade and discusses outlooks for Brazil's...

The Ministry of Health's Mortality Information System (SIM) is one of the main sources of information for measuring violent deaths and, in particular, homicides in Brazil. However, between 1996 and 2021, there were 294,752 violent deaths in which the cause was not defined (or 8,7% of the...

This study analyzes the specialization of a group of countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, United States, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay) in international trade from 2000 to 2021. For the comparison, it was calculated indicators of revealed comparative advantage (VCR),...

This study will focus on export tariff policies in the context of agricultural commodities. The main objective is to carry out a diagnosis of the use of export tariffs in Latin American countries, with particular emphasis on the Argentine experience. This type of policy is normally used with the...

This Discussion Text aims to analyze the initiatives of the states for agriculture and agrarian organization in Brazil. We use open data, mainly from public transparency portals and consultations on websites of entities involved with policies. Policies, plans, programs, or actions are identified...

This article analyzes the situation of social isolation among the elderly, considering both its impacts on health and well-being and the interventions that have been mobilized to combat it. Based on international literature on the topic, the first part of the text discusses the negative...

Do households value access to free health insurance when making labor supply decisions? We address this question by exploiting the 2002 introduction of universal health insurance in Mexico (Seguro Popular, SP), that broke the link between access to health care and job contract. Reduced-form...