trade-offs of benefit designs, estimating costs and impacts on poverty and inequality and assessing operational and … the models that are strongly progressive (the targeted and the hybrid models) are more efficient to reduce poverty and … the advantage of providing coverage to a public that is frequently at risk of poverty (children and adolescents). This …

2000s. Since the recession, there was a rise in inequality and poverty levels and aggregate welfare decreased. While … transfers and unemployment compensation failed to address rising inequality and poverty in any significant way. At the same time …-off. Finally, we show that in the past few years poverty rates were much more sensitive to changes in inequality than in average …