Brazil and Rising powers in international development
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- What effect are non-contributory pension schemes having in South Africa and Brazil?
- A. Barrientos / Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2005
- This paper considers the incidence of cash transfer programmes for the old in Brazil and South Africa on poverty among households with older people. Using comparable datasets the paper constructs conditional and unconditional estimate...
- Are conditional cash transfers (CCTs) effective as a social protection measure?
- T. Britto / Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2005
- This paper analyses the characteristics, design and implementation factors contributing to the popularity of conditional cash transfers (CCT) in Latin America. It is based on an analysis of the Mexican Program of Education, Health and...
- Environmental impacts of economic liberalisation
- L. Togeiro de Almeida / Heinrich Boell Foundation, 2004
- This paper explores the relationship between trade, environment and development in Brazil. In order to do so, the study focuses on the sustainability assessment of foreign trade and its relation to trade reforms as well as on environm...
- Making sure that poverty alleviation programmes reach the poor
- F. Anuatti Neto; R. Fernandes; E.T. Pazello / Faculdade de Economia, Administração e Contabilidade, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), 2001
- Several analysts argue that the inability of many governments to eliminate or substantially reduce poverty is due to social policy being inadequately targeted. One of the difficulties in targeting, however, is that information on inco...
- Minimum income programmes could combat inequality
- A.L.N.H. Barbosa; E.P.S. Fiuza; M. Scharth; S. Asano / Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada / Institute of Applied Economic Research, Brazil, 2003
- Commodity taxes play an important role in Brazil, accounting for around 60 per cent of total tax revenue, and providing a major tool for the redistribution of income in one of the most unequal societies in the world. Using data from a...
- Cash transfers will increase school attendance but are too small to reduce poverty
- F. Bourguignon; F.H.G. Ferreira; P.G. Leite / Departamento de Economia, Pontificía Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2003
- Brazil's Bolsa Escola scheme was established in 2001 and provides a means-tested cash transfer to poor households, on the condition that children in the household attend school. Such schemes aim both to reduce current poverty, via the...
- Paying parents to send their children to school failed to reduce child labour
- E. Cardoso; A.P. Souza / Instituto de Estudos do Trabalho e Sociedade, Brazil, 2003
- Brazil’s Bolsa Escola schemes involve paying cash grants to poor parents on the condition that their children attend school. This paper examines the impact on school attendance and child labour of these schemes using data from th...
- Does regional integration help or hinder exports to the rest of the world?
- A. Nicita; M. Olarreaga; I. Soloaga / Institute of Economics, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile / Instituto de Economia, Pontificia , 2003
- Mercosur was created in 1991 and encompasses Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. It has been argued that the formation of a larger market through regional integration may serve as a platform for potential exporters to world marke...
- Impact of trade liberalisation on household poverty
- T.W. Hertel; M. Ivanic; P.V. Preckel; J.A.L. Cranfield / Global Trade Analysis Project, 2003
- This paper gives an analysis of the structure of poverty across a range of developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and explores how national poverty rates could be affected by global trade liberalization. Some o...
- Conference on social protection for the ageing population
- United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2002
- The UNRISD conference examined the opportunities, problems and challenges of effective social protection for older people, including formal public policies and more informal strategies, such as household support systems. In Ses...
- The Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning (Cebrap)
- The Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning (Cebrap) is a human sciences think tank, with special focus on Brazilian issues. Research areas cover: Culture and Politics Developmental and Labor Studies Environmental Conflicts History Law and Democracy Philosophy and Politics Politics and So...
- Revista de Educação e Pesquisa em Contabilidade (RePEc)
- Open access journal on education and research in accounting.
