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The Poor Shall Inherit Brazil

The Poor Shall Inherit Brazil

Brazil’s Cash Assistance Program to Reduce Poverty

For centuries Brazil promised prosperity amidst the constant plague of poverty and inequality. Forty years ago, the country’s military dictatorship managed to achieve the perplexing “Brazilian miracle” in economic growth, averaging 11 percent a year between 1968 to 1973, in part …

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