Soares, Fabio Veras; Soares, Sergei Suarez Dillon; … - International Policy Center for Inclusive Growth … - 2006
This paper evaluates the contribution of cash transfer programmes to the observed fall in inequality in Brazil between … first time collected data on the incidence of some of the cash transfer programmes. We develop a methodology to separate out … the incidence of the programmes, calculate their concentration indexes and decompose the Gini index into the contribution …