Income transfers and household debt. The advancing collateralization of social policy in the midst of restructuring crises

Autor: LENA LAVINAS, ELIANE ARAÚJO, PEDRO RUBIN
Jazyk: English<br />Portuguese
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, Vol 44, Iss 2, Pp 298-318 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1809-4538
0101-3157
DOI: 10.1590/0101-31572024-3511
Popis: ABSTRACT The aim of this article is to address how household debt and contemporary credit markets seem to be the defining elements in the reshaping of social policy both in developing and developed countries. We start off by recalling how the implementation of income policies as the core of a new social protection paradigm has contributed to promote market-based finance. We take Brazil as a case study to illustrate how this new connection between state guaranteed income policies and credit markets has unfolded resulting in increasing household debt. We show evidence that the connection between household debt and state-provided monetary benefits is effective and significant.
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