
Women in Economics: Laura Carvalho on Popularizing Brazilian Economics
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Is the Pedemic a Trap That We Need to Address?
The pedemic definitely had an effect of increasing inequalities, not only income and equalities, but also ratio gender in every dimension you look at. But then congress approved this cash relief programme, and it was the largest social programm in brazilian history,. big enough to compensate for the fall in income at the bottom half of the distribution. So you ended up neutralizing the effect of the pendemicon inequality in 20 20 in b Brazil thanks to that programme. But then in 21 the program was ended, right? So the inequality underneath actually showed up. And now we are at very high and increasing levels of inequality and poverty and hunger in every measure we have. That's a trap
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