...Carla Tomazini © Emerald Publishing Limited 2021 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Focusing on the conditional cash transfers (CCTs) first created and implemented in Brazil and Mexico, this article takes a new look at the factors facilitating the creation...

... on women's autonomy in relation to paid work. Our analysis is based on the findings of qualitative research case studies conducted in Londrina, a municipality of approximately 500,000 people in the south of Brazil, in 2016. The research included 150 women and used a standardized, semi-structured...

... of this paper is to examine the relationship between leave policies and social inequalities. It seeks to analyze the historical course of maternity and paternity leave legislation in Brazil, and also provides quantitative evidence that access to leave is impacted by social stratification, revealing different...

...Sergio Henrique Rocha Franco Sergio Henrique Rocha Franco can be contacted at: rochafrancosergio@gmail.com The purpose of this paper is to indicate how place making and belonging are still largely governed by race in Brazil and South Africa. As such, it engages with debates about...

...Ricardo Oliveira Rotondano In Brazil, the myth of respect and integration between different ethnicities within society still prevails. Compared with countries where racial segregation is explicit – such as in Israel (Clauzel, 2013 ; Alshboul, 2006) – Brazil appears to be a nation in which...

...Diego Coletto; Lieselot Bisschop Qualitative case studies were used, including interviews, observations and document analyses. The authors compared informal waste management in two cities of the Global South: Accra (Ghana) and Porto Alegre (Brazil). The Porto Alegre case study included...

... for the political, economic, and ecological future of the world. Design/methodology/approach Data from the World Development Indicators database are used to benchmark the recent economic growth of China (and India) to the long‐term trajectory of Brazil. A structuralist approach derived from world‐systems...

...' work that are often unexamined in quantitative studies of child labor. Our goal is to demonstrate the value of building on qualitative research through a more nuanced approach to quantitative analysis of child labor, illustrated using data from Brazil. We first present the conceptual foundations of our...

...). This process typically implies collaboration amongst the public administration (policymakers included), local communities and the private sector (e.g. suppliers of work and services). Storytelling Democracy Budgets Brazil Citizen participation “I wanted to say that I don't agree with what you...

... principles that are normally accepted as obvious in international legislation on child rights. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Children (kinship) Social policy Family Human rights Brazil I propose, in this paper, to consider transnational aspects linked to the social production...