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来源类型 | Working and discussion papers |
规范类型 | 工作论文 |
Social protection in Brazil: Impacts on poverty, inequality and growth | |
Rebecca Holmes; Jessica Hagen-Zanker and Milo Vandemoortele | |
发表日期 | 2011 |
出版年 | 2011 |
语种 | 英语 |
概述 | Part of the Development Progress Stories series, both this research focuses on Brazil's progress in social protection. |
摘要 | Brazil is one of the richest countries in the world, with a per capita gross domestic product (GDP) of $10,427 in 2009. Growth rates increased from 1.9% to 5.1% per year from 1998 to 2008. Yet the country also has one of the highest rates of inequality in the world (the Gini coefficient is 54.2), and poverty levels are also high. Over 20% of the population - 40 million people - live under the poverty line and 7% of the population - 13 million people - are extremely poor. Over the past two decades, however, levels of inequality and poverty have been declining steadily. Between the early 1990s and 2008, the Gini coefficient fell by 5.2 points and the percentage of households living below the poverty line halved. During this same period, notable legislative and programmatic changes were made in the economic and social policy sphere, including increasing the minimum wage and public expenditure on health, education and other social services. At
the same time, Brazil has invested significantly in social protection,
and the country now has one of the best-developed systems among
middle-income countries, covering approximately 25% of the population.
Changes in the past two decades include adapting eligibility criteria
and programme design to extend non-contributory pensions - such as the
Beneficio de Prestação Continuada, a means-tested disability and old-age pension, and the Previdência Rural, an old-age pension for rural
informal sector workers. Meanwhile, cash transfers have been reformed,
consolidated and expanded in the form of Bolsa Família, a conditional
cash transfer (CCT) targeted at extremely poor households and poor
parents with children living at home, which now reaches 12.5 million
families. Such changes have contributed to recent reductions in
inequality and poverty. The overall cost of non-contributory cash
transfers in Brazil is approximately 2.5% of GDP. |
主题 | social protection ; Latin America ; Brazil |
URL | https://www.odi.org/publications/5477-social-protection-brazil-impacts-poverty-inequality-and-growth |
来源智库 | Overseas Development Institute (United Kingdom) |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/508008 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Rebecca Holmes,Jessica Hagen-Zanker and Milo Vandemoortele. Social protection in Brazil: Impacts on poverty, inequality and growth. 2011. |
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brazil_report_-_mast(2464KB) | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
brazil_social_protec(4581KB) | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 |
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