Simple transfers, complex outcomes: The impacts of pensions on poor households in Brazil

Development and Change

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 969-995

  Lloyd Sherlock, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISABILITY; ELDERLY POPULATION; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; PENSION SYSTEM; POVERTY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOCIAL IMPACT;

BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 33750859441     PISSN: 0012155X     EISSN: 14677660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7660.2006.00509.x     Document Type: Article

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