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POPULAR ENTREPRENEURSHIP: A Grammar of Moral Economy in Contemporary Urban Peripheries
Abstract This article examines how popular entrepreneurship operates as a cultural grammar that disrupts established practices of wageless life in urban peripheries. Drawing on four years of ethnographic research conducted in São Paulo, it analyses entrepreneurial discourses not simply as ideological impositions, but as ambivalent mediations of ...
Henrique Costa
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Resumo: O Programa Bolsa Família - PBF define as mulheres como recebedoras preferenciais e responsáveis pelo cumprimento de exigências decorrentes da recepção do benefício.
Kamila Delfino Santos Corgozinho
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O artigo apresenta um perfil das famílias beneficiárias do Programa Bolsa Família em Campos dos Goytacazes e do seu processo de reprodução social. Ao contrário de muitas assertivas, a pesquisa reafirma a condição de trabalhador desses beneficiários, em ...
Érica Vieira Almeida +1 more
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ABSTRACT Objectives To investigate the association of sociodemographic characteristics and dental service utilisation with clusters of oral health conditions among Brazilian five‐year‐old children. Methods Secondary data on five‐year‐old children (N = 4354) from the Brazilian National Oral Health Survey (SB Brasil 2023) were analysed.
Pedro Henrique Duarte França de Castro +2 more
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Female Autonomy in Material and Symbolic Contexts Among Women in Situations of Poverty in Brazil
ABSTRACT This article explores how black women in Brazil navigate intersecting dimensions of race, gender, and socio‐economic status, illustrating the sociocultural factors that shape their daily experiences, with a focus on female autonomy. Drawing on a qualitative design, we conducted semi‐structured interviews with 97 women, of whom 77 self ...
Silvana Aparecida Mariano +2 more
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The Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) and New Agrarian Questions in Brazil
ABSTRACT The Landless Rural Workers Movement of Brazil (MST) primarily organized occupations of large‐scale farms, forcing the redistribution of land for creation of agrarian reform settlements. In the past 20 years, however, land occupations and the establishment of new agrarian reform settlements have consistently declined, while the MST shifted ...
Estevan Coca, Gustavo de L. T. Oliveira
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The Effect of Brazil's Family Health Program on Cognitive Skills
ABSTRACT This paper examines the effect of Brazil's Family Health Program (Programa Saude da Familia, FHP) on cognitive skills (measured by test scores) of fifth‐grade students. We use biennial data from national exams between 2007 and 2015, and variation in the FHP implementation date across municipalities, birth cohort, and test year to identify the ...
Pinar Mine Gunes, Magda Tsaneva
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Gestão do Bolsa Família como prática social promotora de processos educativos
Resumo O Programa Bolsa Família (PBF) é uma política de transferência de renda que tem como objetivo reduzir os índices de pobreza ao transferir um valor monetário mensal para famílias em situação de pobreza e extrema pobreza.
Mariana Machitte de Freitas +1 more
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The Socioeconomic Determinants of Crime in Brazil
This paper aims to examine the determinants of crime in the 5,565 municipalities of Brazil, with a special focus on the Bolsa Familía impact. We identified spatial dependence and heterogeneity and adopted spatial models with regimes: North (NO ...
Pedro Henrique Batista de Barros +2 more
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ABSTRACT This paper adds to the growing evidence on the impacts of early childhood development (ECD) programming by examining one of the world's largest home visitation programmes, the Happy Child Programme in Brazil, and its impacts on child vaccination and preventable death rates.
Raquel Tebaldi +2 more
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