Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/211456 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
Texto para Discussão No. 2505
Publisher: 
Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (IPEA), Brasília
Abstract (Translated): 
Social protection policy in Brazil is a historically built patchwork of programs that pay different values to people in the same situation, leaves many unprotected (in particular, 17 million children), is fraught with duplications and other inefficiencies. This note proposes an approach within which can join all transfers to individuals vulnerable to poverty and children within a single framework. The budgets of the Bolsa Família, Abono Salarial, Salário-Família programs and the child income tax deduction together add up to R$ 52 billion (about USD 15 billion). With these resources, it is possible to propose a new transfer program based on a Universal Child Benefit and targeted Extreme Poverty Grant whose impacts on poverty and inequality are twice those of the four programs above.
Subjects: 
social protection
universal child grant
Bolsa Família
Abono Salarial
Salário-Família
JEL: 
I38
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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