@article{Cury:331846,
      recid = {331846},
      author = {Cury, Samir and Coelho, Allexandro Mori and Pedrozo,  Euclides},
      title = {The Impacts of Income Transfer Programs on Income  Distribution and Poverty in Brazil: An Integrated  Microsimulation and Computable General Equilibrium  Analysis},
      address = {2009},
      pages = {45},
      year = {2009},
      note = {Presented at the 12th Annual Conference on Global Economic  Analysis, Santiago, Chile},
      abstract = {A persistent and very high-income inequality is well known  feature of the Brazilian economy. However, from 2001 to  2005 the Gini index presented an unprecedented fall of  –4.6% combined with a significant poverty reduction. Former  studies using partial equilibrium analysis have pointed out  the importance of federal government transfer programs for  this inequality reduction. The aiming of this research was  to evaluate the efficiency of the two most important cash  transfer programs, “Bolsa Família” and “BPC”, in achieving  their purposes of alleviating poverty and reducing the  inequality in Brazil’s income distribution using an  integrated modeling approach, CGE-MS model. The simulation  results confirm the importance of these programs to reduce  inequality during 2003-2005. But, the effect on poverty  alleviation was not strong. Finally, the methodological  approach allows the identification of some important  economic facts that were not presented in previous  analysis, such as the issue of taxation structure that  finances these policies.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/331846},
}