Title: The poverty targeting of social spending in Brazil
Abstract: This paper examines the possibilities for reducing urban poverty through three important categories of government interventions: ensuring the urban poor access to effective education and health services, ensuring their access to urban services and infrastructure such as clean water, sanitation, transport and housing, and ensuring the availability of an adequate social safety net to protect the consumption levels of vulnerable groups through pensions, unemployment insurance, nutrition programs, and guaranteed minimum income programs. Given time and space limitations, the analysis does not cover two admittedly critical aspects of any sustainable poverty reduction strategy: sound macroeconomic policies to support broad-based economic growth, and the indirect poverty impact achieved by fostering economic growth through prudent investments in human capital and economic infrastructure.
Publication Year: 2005
Publication Date: 2005-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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