This study sought to trace the historical development of the conceptual construction of the social economy in Europe and the solidarity economy in Latin America (and in Brazil in particular), highlighting relevant convergences and divergences. Although they emerged in different contexts, both...

This study aimed to analyze the budget trajectory of the Workers' Support Fund (FAT), contrasting accounting indicators with political and economic factors that may have conditioned its operational planning. The data analysis allowed us to corroborate the hypothesis that the evolution of both...

This study aimed to analyze the regulatory impact of Law No. 13,134/2015 on the Unemployment Insurance and Salary Bonus programs, which constitute the main mandatory expenditure items of the Workers' Support Fund (FAT). The analyses focused on three central issues, considering the period between...

This research aims to investigate the effect of the National Program for the Strengthening of Family Agriculture (Pronaf) on income from work in rural Northeastern Brazil. For this purpose, data from the 2014 National Household Sample Survey (PNAD) were used and the propensity score matching...

This study aimed to investigate the recent operational dynamics of the Abono Salarial Program in Brazil, with a time horizon between 2011-2019. The analysis took into account occurrences that may have affected the number of people eligible for the program, such as, for example, the strong...

This study is intended to verify the effects of recent regulatory changes in the National School Feeding Program (Programa Nacional de Alimentação Escolar - PNAE), in particular the insertion of agriculture as a public to be prioritized in the purchase of food, on its potential contribution to...

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...

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...

This paper aimed to problematize the relationship between community development banks (BCDs) and public management. Therefore, we sought to analyze the main elements that allowed this relationship of complementarity, with a case study, based on pioneering experiences, on the factors that guided...

This study focuses on the profile of workers' union associations in Brazil given the context of recent changes in the political, economic, social and institutional spheres. More precisely, the objectives were: i) to analytically reconstruct the transformations of trade unionism, internationally...