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Brazil’s return: Food security and social protection

Submitted by pmassetti on Tue, 09/05/2023 - 15:37

Institute of Development Studies (30.08.2023) 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 mid-2010s. This is a remarkable success story. Throughout the same 30-year period, the rate of child stunting in South Africa, a country that shares many characteristics with Brazil, remained constant at about 25%. 

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brazil
Global challenges
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Access to Welfare in the Digital Economy in BRICS Countries

Submitted by pmassetti on Mon, 10/10/2022 - 15:04

vidhilegalpolicy.in (22.09.2022) Many governments now use digital technology for means testing. For instance, the US uses an Income Eligibility Verification System that links several databases to verify beneficiary income. It also uses a Prisoner Verification System linked to prisoners’ databases to exclude prisoners from benefits.

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china
india
brazil
Russian Federation
Digital Economy Topical Cluster
Societal Impact
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Social Assistance for Informal workers : Analysis of the COVID-19 response in Brazil and Colombia

Submitted by pmassetti on Fri, 01/28/2022 - 16:47

afd.fr (january 2022) This paper exposes the measures extended to informal workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study analyzes two South-American countries which have a high percentage of informality, Colombia and Brazil. We study the implications of the expansion of the social assistance programs of these two countries, exposing their weakness and strengths to mitigate the pandemic adverse effects.

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brazil
colombia
Global challenges
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Extension of coverage

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Brazil to extend emergency cash transfers to poor for 2 months

Submitted by pmassetti on Fri, 06/11/2021 - 16:50

Reuters - Brazil’s government plans to extend an emergency cash transfer program to relieve poor families during the coronavirus pandemic for another two months, a government official with knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Monday. The 250 reais-per-month handout, to be financed with an extraordinary credit of 12 billion reais ($2.38 billion), will be paid in August and September, continuing a program started last year and revived for four months in April, the source said. ($1 = 5.04 reais)

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brazil
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Cash transfers
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Landmark study shows how child grants empower women in Brazil and South Africa

Submitted by pmassetti on Fri, 04/09/2021 - 14:58

theconversation.com (29.03.2021) 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 female caregivers, primarily mothers. The most expansive child and family grants are in Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Argentina and South Africa, which has put in place the biggest social provision net in Africa.

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south africa
brazil
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Family benefits
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Brazil's lower house approves bill allowing renewal of pandemic aid to poor families

Submitted by pmassetti on Fri, 03/19/2021 - 16:32

Reuters (11.03.2021) - Brazil’s lower house of Congress approved the basic text of a bill on Thursday that revives a federal cash transfer program to help millions of poor families whose incomes have been hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. The measure will allow emergency stipends totaling up to 44 billion reais ($7.96 billion) to be paid to low-income Brazilians over the next four months, with recipients expected to get an average of 250 reais per month.

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brazil
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Cash transfers

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Brazil: Proof of Life for retired civil servants, pensioners and amnesties is suspended until October 31

Submitted by siha on Thu, 10/01/2020 - 17:05

Ministry of Economy (28.09.2020) The requirement of the annual Proof of Life (re-registration) of retired civil servants, pensioners and civil political amnesties referred to in Ordinance No. 244 and Normative Instruction No. 45, both of June 15, 2020, is suspended until October 31, 2020.

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brazil
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Old-age pensions
Service delivery
COVID-19
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