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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...
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Brazil between 2004 and 2019. In order to do this, we use data from the National Household Sample Survey (PNAD) from 2004 to …
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The impacts of the exploration and production of large oil and gas reserves in a national economy are controversial. Several countries have shown a lack of capacity to develop based on these resources, while others achieve success. One important part of this equation are the local content rules...
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causes of the low economic performance, in general, of Latin American countries and, in particular, of Brazil since the 1980s … countries, including Brazil. …
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We examine the extent to which education is a main determinant of affluence in Brazil. We focus on workers in the top 1 …
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This article provides a comprehensive analysis of labor earnings volatility in Brazil between 2012 and 2023. During … this period, Brazil's economy experienced intense economic growth followed by large recessions, allowing us to assess … changes in volatility over the business cycle. In addition, Brazil's national household survey follows individuals throughout …
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poverty reduction in five different geographic regions - Brazil, the Northeastern region, the state of Bahia, the metropolitan … the Programa Bolsa Família. Thus, both growth and redistribution contributed decisively to poverty reduction in Brazil and …-term prospects for pro-poor growth and poverty reduction in Brazil will hinge on a more equitable labor market in the Northeastern …
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The extraordinary events that occurred in the country between 2001-2007, with a sharp decline in inequality and the levels of poverty and extreme poverty offers a unique opportunity to examine the most relevant factors to explain changes that benefit the poor and in different scenarios ? with...
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The following study uses two approaches to judge whether inequality in Brazil is falling fast enough. The first is to … compare the variation of the Gini coefficient in Brazil with what was observed in several countries that today belong to the … for how long Brazil must keep up the fall in the Gini coefficient to attain the same levels of inequality of three OECD …
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-scale approach may be useful for a better understanding of the regional per capita GDP disparities in Brazil. …
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