Wednesday, August 30, 2023
To the international community, Brazil’s record on food security and social protection until relatively recently was exemplary, even enviable. The level of child stunting in Brazil fell from 25% in the mid-1980s to 15% in the mid-1990s and just 5% by the...
Thursday, March 24, 2022
O Brasil precisa investir em políticas de proteção social perenes e de longo prazo para efetivamente reduzir, de maneira sustentável, a pobreza infantil. O estudo “Pobreza Infantil Monetária no Brasil – Impactos da pandemia na renda de famílias com...
Tuesday, March 1, 2022
Brasília. Agosto de 2021. O governo entrega ao Congresso a medida provisória do Auxílio Brasil. O ministro da Cidadania, João Roma (Republicanos), diz que o programa é uma evolução do Bolsa Família. Integrando políticas públicas de assistência social,...
Monday, June 7, 2021
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Lower-middle-income countries spend 1.4 percent of GDP on social assistance that reduces relative poverty by...
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America, Brazil, Asia, China, Oceania, Australia, New Zealand
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Tuesday, June 1, 2021
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With pandemic lockdowns crippling labor demand and supply around the world, government interest in ...
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Africa, Kenya, Togo, Tunisia, America, Brazil, Asia, Sri Lanka
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Tuesday, May 25, 2021
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One of the questions I attempt to answer in this article is what we might learn from social policy and...
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Africa, South Africa, America, Brazil
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Wednesday, May 5, 2021
A book on Welfare States, Rights and Basic Income in Latin America published in December 2019 has now become fully available online (only in Spanish).
The publication, co-edited and co-authored by Development Pathways’ Senior Social Policy...
Thursday, April 1, 2021
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Everyone participates in the social contract every day, and we rarely stop to think about it. Yet social...
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Africa, South Sudan, America, Brazil, Colombia, Jamaica, United States, Asia, China, India, Europe, Denmark, United Kingdom
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Monday, March 29, 2021
That nearly $60bn burst of basic income softened the economic blow of the coronavirus pandemic, boosted President Jair Bolsonaro’s popularity and beat back poverty — but its expiration at the end of 2020 is unravelling many of those effects.
Monday, March 29, 2021
Since the mid-1990s, new approaches to poverty reduction have been introduced in countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America. Some have involved income transfer programmes that target poorer citizens based on various means tests. Most have targeted...
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Africa, South Africa, America, Brazil
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