2006

A Britain in which nobody is left behind

A Britain where poverty is defeated

A Tale of Two Politicians

Brazil : at least 6.5 million people live in favelas

Eradicating child poverty in Britain : Welfare reform and children since 1997

Fiscal reform finally approved but results fall well short of original proposal,

Indicators of progress. A discussion of approaches to monitor the Government’s strategy to tackle poverty and social exclusion

Investing in the citizen-workers of the future : New Labour’s ‘third way’ in welfare reform

Les programmes de la sécurité du revenu destinés aux travailleurs de l’Amérique du nord

Poverty : Measures and targets

Routes out of poverty : A research review

Royaume-Uni : L’expérience britannique de lutte contre la pauvreté des enfants

Royaume-Uni : La pauvreté, ses caractéristiques, l’ambiguïté de l’action gouvernementale

2004 Mexican Elections

A Guide to the 2004 Mexican State Elections

A Mexican Perspective

A New Poverty Profile for Brazil Using PPV, PNAD and Census Data,

A thematic study using transnational comparisons to analyse and identify what combination of policy responses are most successful in preventing and reducing high levels of child poverty

Accounting for poverty differences between the United States, Great Britain and Germany

Achievements and Challenges of Fiscal Decentralization : Lessons from Mexico

Agency, Actors and Change in a Child-Focused Future : Problematizing Path Dependency’s Past and Statist Parameters

Agricultural Trade Liberalization and Brazil’s Rural Poor : Consolidating Inequality

Analisis comparativo de Seguridad social por maternidad. Analys comparative de la sécurité sociale pour maternité

Articulation travail-famille : Le contre-exemple des pays dits " libéraux " ?

As muitas reformas da previdência social

Au pays des sans-terre

Baby Bonds : detailed proposals

Balanço do Programa Fome Zero

Beans for Breakfast ? How Exportable Is the British Workfare Model ?

Between political control and efficiency gains : the evolution of agrarian property rights in Mexico

Beyond the Mid-term Elections Mexico’s Political Outlook 2003–2006

Brasil 1994-2002. A era do Real

Brazil - Poverty Reduction, Growth, and Fiscal Stability in the State of Ceará - Vol I

Brazil - Public Expenditures for Poverty Alleviation in Northeast Brazil

Brazil - Startegies of Poverty Reduction in Ceará - Vol II

Brazil : Amnesty International

Brazil as Assessment of the Bolsa Escola Programs

Brazil Pays Its Poor to Send Kids to School

Brazil Pays Parents to Help Poor Be Pupils Not Wage Earners

Brazil – Attacking Brazil’s Poverty

Brazilian President named first winner of UN Human Development Award

Building Equity from the Beginning : the Children and Adolescents of Ibero-America

CAFTA : Leaping Without Looking ? Serious questions, information gaps, and an accelerated timeline

Caregiving, welfare states and mothers’ poverty

Changing poverty post-1997

Chapter 4 : Increasing Employment Opportunity For All

Chapter 5 : Building a Fairer Society

Child Benefits Levels in 2003 and Beyond : Australia, Canada, the UK and the US

Child Fund Trust

Child poverty and child benefits in the European Union

Child Poverty in English-Speaking Countries

Choice for parents, the best start for children : a ten year strategy for childcare

Cibler les prestations sociales et familiales en fonction des ressources : Eléments de comparaison européenne

Coffee, co-operatives and competition : the impact of Fair Trade

Communauté solidaire : tous pour tous

Delivering Assets in the United Kingdom

Democracy, Social Policy and Mortality Decline in Brazil

Deux années de changements

Discord in U.S.-mexican labor relations and the North American agreement on labor cooperation

Discours de Vicente Fox Quesada au Sommet surdéveloppement durable

Education and Income Distribution in Urban Brazil

Educational Expansion and Income Distribution. A Micro-simulation for Ceará

Effects of the Integration of Mexico into NAFTA on Trade, Industry, Emplyment and Economic Growth

Enabling the Voluntary Sector in Mexico ? The Fox Administration and Civil Society

Equity, development and citizenship

Evaluating the Impact of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs : Lessons from Latin America

Every child the best chance to succeed

Expenditure patterns post-welfare reform in the UK : Are low-income families starting to catch up ?

Families, poverty, work and care

Faut-il exporter l’inégalité ?

Focus on social inequalities

Fome Zero is dead, long live Fome Zero

Fondo Nacional de Apoyo para las Empresas de Solidaridad (FONAES)

Foreign Direct Investment and Income Inequality in Latin America

From input to influence, Participatory approaches to research and inquiry into poverty

From Pallet Shacks to Cinderblock Homes : Microfinance Loans on the Mexican Border

Gender Dimensions of Child Labor and Street Children in Brazil

Government extends minimum wage to 16 and 17 years old

Growth and Poverty Reduction in Pernambouco

How many lone parents are receiving tax credits ?

Included Aspects and Relevant Exclusions : Minimum Standards for the Mexican Ethos

Income poverty, deprivation and exclusion : A comparative study of Australia and Britain

Inequality and Poverty

Inequality of Outcomes and Inequality of Opportunities in Brazil

Intergenerational and life-course transmission of social exclusion in the 1970 British Cohort Study

Investing in the citizen-workers of the future : New Labour’s ‘third way’ in welfare reform

L’accueil des jeunes enfants au Royaume-Uni

L’ALÉNA : Inégalités et démocratie

L’étude du devenir des enfants de familles défavorisées : L’apport des expériences américaine et britannique

L’héritage de l’époque Cardoso et les défis du nouveau gouvernement Lula

La pobreza en México : una evaluación de las condiciones, las tendencias y la estrategia del Gobierno. La pauvreté au Mexique : une évaluation des conditions, des tendences et de la stratégie du gouvernement.

Land Policy : A Decade after the Ejido Reform

Le Consensus de Monterrey

Le défi : concilier rigueur et lutte contre la pauvreté

Le défi nord-américain d’un point de vue mexicain

Le logement social et la lutte contre la pauvreté et l’exclusion sociale

Le maire qui change modestement la ville de Mexico

Le Mexique de Vicente Fox et la mondialisation : Quelles perspectives pour les travailleurs du secteur

Le Working Family Tax Credit au Royaume-Uni, un crédit d’impôt pour les parents en activité

Legitimizing Basic Income in Developing Countries : Brazil or the Answer is Blowin’ in the Wind

Les aspects sociaux du commerce : de la clause sociale à l’ALÉNA

Les entrées et les sorties de la pauvreté dans les économies avancées

Lessons from NAFTA for Latin American and Caribbean Countries : A Summary of Research Findings

Ley general de desarrollo social

Living standards, inequality and poverty

Loi sur les cotisations et prestations de sécurité sociale (Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act)

London divided : Income inequality and poverty in the capital

Low/Moderate-income families in Britain : changes in 1999-2000

L’aide à l’enfance au Royaume-Uni en 2001

Making Trade Work for Development in 2005 : What the Eu Can Do

Measuring the impact of minimum wages : evidence from Latin America

Abstract : The authors provide an overview of minimum wage levels in Latin America and their true impact on the distribution of wages, using both numerical measures and kernal density plots for eight countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Honduras, Mexico, and Uruguay). They especially try to identify "numeraire" effects—where the minimum is used as a reference higher in the wage distribution—and "lighthouse" effects—where it influences wage setting in the unregulated or "informal" sector. Their main findings : First, statutory minimum wages are often misleading, and graphical methods may be more reliable. Second, the minimum wage’s effect on wage setting extends far beyond what is usually considered and probably beyond the effect in industrial countries. Using panel employment data from Colombia, where minimum wages seem high and binding, the authors quantify the minimum wage’s effects on wages and on the probability of becoming unemployed. The Colombian case confirms the evidence offered by kernal density estimates : 1) The minimum wage can have an important impact on wage distribution in the neighborhood of the minimum wage. 2) The effects echo up the wage distribution in a clear demonstration of the "numeraire" effect. That this effect is stronger in Latin America than in the United States suggests that the minimum wage induces further-reaching rigidities in the labor market. The trade-off between any possible effect on poverty and reduced flexibility is likely to be more severe in countries where this is the case. The effects on employment, and unemployment, are substantial. 3) Informal salaries wages are also affected, confirming the graphical evidence of strong lighthouse effects. Self-employment earnings are not, however, confirming that the minimum wage is not simply serving as a measure of inflationary expectations.

Measuring Vulnerability : Who Suffered in the 1995 Mexican Crisis ?_

Abstract : The paper identifies the demographic groups that suffered the largest income falls during the 1995 crisis in Mexico and which groups recovered most quickly. It uses quantile analysis to identify those suffering “catastrophic” falls in income and employs distributional weights to identify those most “vulnerable.” The incidence and overall impact of common coping strategies-putting additional family members in the workforce- is also examined.

Mexico - Earnings Inequality after Mexico’s Economic and Educational Reforms

Mexico Makes Progress And Faces Challenges In Poverty Reduction Efforts

Mexico’s Fox Vows to Block ’Irresponsible’ Budget

Mexico, in Global Civil Society : Dimensions of the Nonprofit Sector

Mexico : Experiences with Pro-Poor Expenditure Policies

Mexico : Integrating the Poor into the Mainstream Financial System : The BANSEFI and SAGARPA Programs

México : Social Security Workers Fight Even ’Bandaid’ Reform

Mexico : Sugar Strike Suspended

Mexico : The Remaking of an Economy

Mexico’s Budget Battle

Mexico’s Oportunidades Program

Monitoring poverty and social exclusion 2003

Monitoring poverty and social exclusion 2004

Monitoring poverty and social exclusion : 2005

Monitoring Progress and Action in the Fight Against Hunger

Mouvement des femmes, économie sociale et solidaire et développement local en Amérique latine

NAFTA at 10

Nafta’s Promise and Reality — Lessons from Mexico for the Hemisphere

NAFTA, Corn, and Mexico’s Agricultural Trade Liberalization

NAFTA, Foreign Direct Investment, and Sustainable Industrial Development in Mexico

National Minimum Wage

New tax credits

New tax credits

Opportunity for all : Seventh annual report

Opportunity for all : Sixth annual report 2004

Options for rural poverty reduction in Latin America and the Caribbean

Outcomes for children of poverty

Outcomes for Children Poverty

Overcoming disadvantage : An agenda for the next 20 years

Perceptions of Redistribution : Report on exploratory qualitative research

Persistent poverty in the Netherlands Germany and the UK : a model based approach using panel data for the 1990s

PM speech on Welfare Reform

Policies towards poverty

Policy Options for Meeting the Millennium Development Goals in Brazil : Can Micro-Simulations Help

Políticas Sociais no Brasil. Descentralização em um estado federativo

Poverty and inequality

Poverty and inequality in Britain : 2006

Poverty and worklessness in Britain

Poverty Dynamics in Four OECD Countries

Poverty in Britain : The impact of government policy since 1997

Poverty in the Brazilian Amazon : An Assessment of Poverty Focused on the State of Pará

PPP Spotlight #4 : Public Relations Firm to the Rescue of Plan Puebla-Panama

Preliminary conclusions : Measuring child poverty consultation

Programa Nacional de Financiamiento al Microepresario (PRONAFIM)

Programas de apoyo a las micro, pequeñas y medianas empresas en México

Programas de reducción de la pobreza en América Latina. Un análisis de cinco experiencias

PROGRESA : Integrating and Targeting Social Programs in Mexico

Publicité d’introduction du Working Families Tax Credit

Que peut-on faire au sujet de l’inégalité ?

Réception dans l’hémicycle de M. Vicente Fox Quesada, Président des Etats-Unis du Mexique

Recherches en politiques sociales, pour des pays et spécifiques et pour l’Amérique latine

Region’s Poverty Indices Stagnate

Reglamento del Seguro de Salud para la Familia

Rio : la misère au paradis

Rural Poverty Alleviation in Brazil : Towards in Integrated Strategy

Sans titreBrazil - Attacking Brazil’s poverty : a poverty report with a focus on urban poverty reduction policies Vol. II

Savings and Assets for All

Savings and Assets for All, Tony Blair, 21 avril 2001

Social capital and culture : master keys to development

Social panorama of Latin America 1997

Social policy in Brazil : Targeting the poor

Social protection for the poor in Latin America

Structural Reforms, Macroeconomic Fluctuations and Income Distribution in Brazil

Supporting children through the tax and benefit system. The modernisation of Britain’s tax benefit system

Synthèse de la position du Mexique dans les négociations commerciales

Synthèse du Plan national britannique d’action contre la pauvreté et pour l’inclusion sociale

Tackling child poverty : Giving every child the best possible start in life

Tackling disadvantage : A 20-year enterprise

Tackling poverty and making work pay : Tax credits for the 21st century. The modernisation of Britain’s tax benefit system

Tackling Social Exclusion : Taking stock and looking to the future Emerging Findings

Tax and benefit changes : winners and losers

Tax credits : reforming financial support for families. The modernisation of Britain’s Tax and Benefit System

Tax credits : reforming financial support for families. The modernisation of Britain’s Tax and Benefit System

Tax rises and new tax credits cut average incomes, but reduce poverty and inequality

Taxation

The British Underclass : Ten years later

The child and working tax credits. The modernisation of Britain’s tax and benefit system

The distributional effects of fiscal reforms since 1997

The Dynamics of Poverty in Britain

The effects of growth and economic reform on income distribution in Latin America

The Government’s child poverty target : How much progress has been made ?

The impact of government policy on social exclusion among young people

The impact of tax and benefit changes between April 2000 and April 2003 on parents’ labour supply

The Lacandona Jungle’s Last Stand Against Corporate Globalization Plan Puebla Panama and the fight to preserve biodiversity and indigenous rights in Chiapas

The Mexican Farmers’ Movement : Exposing the Myths of Free Trade

The modernisation of Britain’s tax benefit system

The National Minimum Wage

The National Minimum Wage Act 1998

The National Minimum Wage – Making a Difference

The peso crisis, ten years on Tequila slammer

The Poverty Reduction Strategy of the Government of Brazil : a Rapid Appraisal

Abstract : This paper provides an overview of both the current structure of poverty in Brazil through a detailed poverty profile and of the aggregate dynamics of poverty in the last two decades. We then assess a number of government policies and programs which are either specifically designed to reduce poverty or have a direct bearing on current or future social welfare. A brief discussion of the Comunidade Solidária Programme is followed by an analysis of the coverage and targeting performance of mainstream programs in the areas of education, health, social security and other transfers. Our main findings are that a fifth of the Brazilian population live in indigence, and that this does not represent a substantial improvement over the situation two decades ago. A share of the blame for this must be borne by the highly regressive pattern of incidence of ‘social expenditures’ which are, on the whole, disproportionately appropriated by the middle-classes and the rich.

The Slippery Slope : Explaining the Increase in Extreme Poverty in Urban Brazil

The use of contestability and flexibility in the delivery of welfare services in Australia and the Netherlands

Towards a Citizen’s Income : The Advancement of the Battle in Brazil

Trends in poverty : The UK in international perspective – How rates mislead and intensity matters

Understanding Inequality in Brazil : A Conceptual Overview

Abstract : This is a background note to a joint IPEA/World Bank Report, provisionally entitled "Selected Topics on Income Inequality in Brazil", with publication planned for 2001. The purpose of the note is twofold. First we propose four central questions which the Report should seek to address, and around which it can be structured. These are : "What is unique about Brazil’s inequality ?" ; "Why does inequality matter ?" ; "Which inequality matters most ?" ; and "What - if anything - can the government do about it ?". Second, we provide reasonably detailed outlines for four background papers for the Main Report : each addressing one of the foregoing questions.

Understanding Social Policy Making : The Origins of Mexican Social Security Policy

United Kingdom Action Plan on Social Inclusion 2003-2005

United Nations Special Rapporteur on adequate housing

Wage Inequality Changes in Brazil : Market Forces, Macroeconomic Instability and Labor Market Institutions (1981-1997

Wage inequality in Post-reform Mexico

Wage inequality in the United Kingdom, 1975-1999

Welfare-to-Work, Wages and Wage Growth

What do the child poverty targets mean for the child tax credit ? An update

What do the child poverty targets mean for the child tax credit ? An update

Why are child poverty rates higher in Britain than in Germany ? A longitudinal perspective

Why NAFTA Did Not Reach the South

Youth at Risk, Social Exclusion, and Intergenerational Poverty Dynamics : A New Survey Instrument with Application to Brazil

Zapatista Guerrillas Quiet but Still Present in Chiapas

Zero Hunger Program