Key Questions: Where are the richest in Brazil? How has the pandemic affected overall inequality and the geographic...

The book looks specifically at Rio’s population in relation to control groups, covering traditional factors linked to Olympic legacies, such as...

In the last year, inequality of labor earnings reached its highest level in the decade. Looking at the annual series, income inequality has been...

When comparing Brazil with 143 other countries, the country has had one of the three worst global declines and ranks 37th in the biennium 2017-...

Agenda for Social Advances 
Neri gives the inclusive growth recipe for Brazil. For economist Marcelo Neri, director of the FGV Social,...

Who are the elderly Brazilians? How do they live? Where do they live?
(evidence by countries, Brazilian states, capital cities,...

Brazil occupies a prominent place on the issue of food insecurity, both because of agricultural production and because of the...

Just over a year after the Covid-19 pandemic hit the country, what has happened to labor income inequality and prosperity...

Inequality rise reaches 17 consecutive quarters, says FGV Social
From the end of 2014 until the 2º quarter of 2019, the income of the...

The Director of FGV Social – Center for Social Policy, Marcelo Neri, gave a lecture at the opening ceremony of the 60th National...

Is it better to strengthen the BPC (i.e. cash transfers linked to the minimum wage) or expand the Bolsa Família (e.g. by...

The contingent of people with household per capita income lower than 497 reais per month became 62.9 million Brazilians in 2021...

According to the study, published by FGV Social, there are currently 23.3 million people living below the poverty line in...

Food Security Nobel Peace Prize:
Comparing Brazil and the World

Ends, means and the Agenda for Fighting Poverty
FGV Social co-edits special edition of the Brazilian Journal of Public Administration (RAP...

Between the last quarters of 2015 and 2016, the economic downturn had different impacts on Brazilians, based on their household conditions and...

The Director of the FGV Center for Social Policy (FGV Social), Marcelo Neri, gave a talk at Harvard University on April 19, and another talk at...

Marcelo Neri, from FGV’s Centre for Social Policy (CPS) and EPGE - Brazilian School of Economics and Finance, attended the World Social Science...

19/08/2019 - (In Portuguese) - Folha de S. Paulo - "Sem 'norte', serão 15 anos para Brasil voltar à pobreza de 2014 - https://...

FGV’s Center for Social Policy (FGV Social/CPS) held on November 27, a debate connecting the past, present and future of public policies. The...

FGV’s Brazilian School of Economics and Finance (EPGE) organized, in partnership with the University of Bath (UK), the International Seminar on...

Economist Marcelo Neri has resumed activities at Fundação Getulio Vargas and reestablished the Center for Social Policy (CPS). The center had...