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

Based on microdata from the Gallup World Poll, FGV Social compared Brazilians’ perceptions of their political and social context to those of 124...

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

Our starting point is to gauge movements of exits and returns to school during the pandemic. We document a rise in school...

We propose a simple indicator that marks as a clock the hours dedicated by each potential student to distance learning. This...

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

Marcelo Neri holds a lecture on inclusive and sustainable development for administration students
The lecture preceded the award of the “Top...

FGV Social - Center for Social Policy held a workshop on Bolsa Família [Family Allowance], Targeting, and the Job Market. The event...

Besides prosperity and equality, stability is a key attribute to social well-being. Like the first two dimensions, stability is...

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...

FGV Social was present in The Economist's latest special report on Brazil. For the third time in 12 years, the magazine...

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...