Including Brazil watchers about what's on

Got an email from my former supervisor and co-author, Fiona Macauley (see our chapter in Radicals in Power). She's helping organise a conference on 22 June about social exclusion in Brazil. Sounds promising, although I doubt I'll be able to make it as it's a Tuesday.

OVERCOMING SOCIAL EXCLUSION:
BRAZIL IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE

To be held at St. Antony’s College, Oxford

There is no conference fee but advanced registration is required.
Please register with name and affiliation to enquiries@brazil.ox.ac.uk

PROGRAMME

8.45 Registration

9.15-9.30 Opening
Professor Leslie Bethell, Director, Centre for Brazilian Studies
Dr Louise Haagh, Conference Co-ordinator

9.30- 11.00 Session 1: Identity and entitlements of the poor

Chair: Dr Louise Haagh

Speakers:

Dr Ricardo Paes de Barros (Director of Social Policy and Research, Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada - IPEA, Ministry of Planning, Rio de Janeiro)
The design of proxy means testing systems in Brazil

Dr Marcelo Medeiros (IPEA, Brasília and United Nations Development Programme, Brasília)
The problems of using income poverty lines and proxy means testing to target policies in Brazil.

Discussant Professor Sir Tony Atkinson (Warden of Nuffield College, Oxford)

11.15-13.00 Session 2: Active labour market policies

Chair: Mr Alan Angell, University Lecturer in Politics and Fellow of St Antony’s College, Oxford. To be confirmed

Speakers:

Dr Márcio Pochmann (Secretary of State for Employment, São Paulo Municipality)
The poor and work. Active labour market policies in Brazil

Dr Lauro Ramos (IPEA, Rio de Janeiro)
A description of the Brazilian metropolitan labour market

Dr Luciana Mendes Servo ( IPEA, Brasilia)
Recent labour market policies in Brazil

14.00-15.30 Session 3: Coordinating social policy

Chair: Dr Fiona Macaulay

Speakers:

Dr Ana Maria Fonseca (Executive Secretary, Ministry of Social Development, Brasília)
Coordinating social policies in Brazil

Dr Marcelo Cortes Neri (Director, Centre for Social Policy, Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Rio de Janeiro)
Designing a system of social targets and social credit in Brazil

Discussant: Professor Peter Townsend (Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics)

16.00-18.00 Session 4: Income security in comparative perspective

Chair: Professor Leslie Bethell

Speakers:

Dr Guy Standing (Director, InFocus Programme on Socio-Economic Security, International Labour Organisation, Geneva)
Promoting income security as a right

Dr Armando Barrientos (Senior Lecturer, Institute of Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester) and
Dr Peter Lloyd-Sherlock (Senior Lecturer in Social Development, School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia)
The role of non-contributory pension programmes in reducing poverty: experiences from Brazil and South Africa

Dr Louise Haagh
Re-writing the social contract in emergent economies: Flexicurity models in Chile, Brazil and Korea.

Senator Eduardo Matarazzo Suplicy (Senator, PT, São Paulo and Professor of Economics, Fundação Getúlio Vargas, São Paulo)
Approval of the Citizen’s Basic Income Bill in Brazil