Opportunity NYC: A performance-based conditional cash transfer programme. A quantitative analysis

As one of the first pieces of published research on New York's conditional cash transfer (CCT) programme, this paper presents the nuts-and-bolts of Opportunity New York City. It details the programme's performance-based conditionalities, contrasts its different subcomponents, and compares its design and conception to that of its precursor CCT programmes in Latin America. Finally, the paper considers whether Opportunity NYC will be able to harness broad political support in the city and become an enduring solution to education reform in the largest public school system in the United States. Critics of its conception and practice certainly abound

Policy dismantling by capacity manipulation in a context of democratic backsliding: The bureaucracy in disarray in Bolsonaro’s Brazil

The policy dismantling framework was developed to account for processes involving the reduction or termination of existing policies, especially in the so-called advanced democracies. However, is the model proposed by policy dismantling scholars applicable to contexts of democratic backsliding such as Bolsonaro’s Brazil? Do those contexts offer new elements to their analytical model? This article addresses those questions by analyzing the case of Brazil under President Jair Bolsonaro. Departing from research on policy dismantling recently conducted in Brazil and based on data collected with federal civil servants from 2019 to 2021, it will be argued that the mechanics of policy dismantling in Brazil involve not only the reduction and elimination of past policies but also the manipulation of policy capacities. At the individual policy capacity level, that process has involved mistrust and contempt for career civil servants, fear, and bureaucratic reshuffling, whereby bureaucrats were either removed from their original positions or resorted to exit in fear of persecution. The intimidation and disarrangement of the federal bureaucracy in Brazil appears to be an integral part of capacity manipulation, shedding light into what policy dismantling looks like in contexts of democratic backsliding

Beyond ‘BRICS’: ten theses on South–South cooperation in the twenty-first century

Grounded in a review of past and present academic South–South cooperation literatures, this article advances ten theses that problematise empirical, theoretical, conceptual and methodological issues essential to discussions of South–South cooperation in the 21st century. This endeavour is motivated by the perceived undermining, especially in the contemporary Anglophone academic South–South cooperation literature, of the emancipatory potential historically associated with South–South cooperation. By drawing on the interventionist South–South cooperation agendas of ‘left’-leaning Latin America-Caribbean governments, the article seeks to establish a dialogue between social science theories and less ‘visible’ analyses from academic (semi)peripheries. The ten theses culminate in an exploration of the potential of South–South cooperation to promote ‘alternative’ development

Diversidade e Políticas Públicas

A perspectiva da diversidade nas políticas públicas. Abordagens sobre diversidade. Diversidades e identidades. Diversidade, comunicação e políticas públicas. A relação com a sociedade e o papel do Estado. Patriarcado e relações de gênero. Desigualdade de gênero na burocracia. Políticas para as mulheres. Interseccionalidade e consubstancialidade. Racismo. Políticas afirmativas. Orientação sexual e identidade de gênero. O nome social. Pessoas com deficiência, acessibilidade e inclusão. A invisibilidade como questão de política pública. Políticas públicas e povos indígenas. Desafios da igualdade e da equidade para as políticas públicas no Brasil.Programa: 4p; Aula 1: 10p; Aula 2: 83p; Aula 3: 35p; Aula 4: 50p; Aula 5: 40p; Aula 6: 37p.Sociedade. Gênero. FamíliaPrograma de Aperfeiçoamento para Carreiras – 201

Detection of viral hepatitis b and c in a metropolitan region in Northern Brazil

Executive Secretariat of Public Health. Department of Epidemiology. Belém, PA, Brazil.Ministério da Saúde. Secretaria de Vigilância em Saúde. Instituto Evandro Chagas. Ananindeua, PA, Brasil.Federal Institute of Science and Technology Education of Pará. Health manager. Belém, PA, Brazil / Faculty Porto União. Health Services Auditor. Belém, PA, Brazil.Federal Institute of Education Science and Technology of Pará . Belém, PA, Brazil.Federal Institute of Education Science and Technology of Pará . Belém, PA, Brazil.Federal Institute of Education Science and Technology of Pará . Belém, PA, Brazil.Federal Institute of Education Science and Technology of Pará . Belém, PA, Brazil.Ministério da Saúde. Secretaria de Vigilância em Saúde. Instituto Evandro Chagas. Laboratório de Geoprocessamento. Ananindeua, PA, Brasil.State University of Pará. Belém, PA, Brazil.Federal Institute of Education Science and Technology of Pará. Belém, PA, Brazil.Objective: Analyze the SINAN epidemiological database for cases of viral hepatitis B and C, using the Linkage tools between the databases of the Laboratory Environment Manager (GAL) and the data from the Foundation of Hemotherapy and Hematology Center of Pará (HEMOPA). Method: Cross-sectional and descriptive epidemiological study, based on information on HBV and HCV collected in the SINAN databases, Environment Manager of the Laboratory of the Evandro Chagas Institute (GAL-IEC), Central Laboratory of the State of Pará (GAL-Lacen) and blood donation screening sheets of the Foundation Center for Hemotherapy and Hematology of Pará (HEMOPA), with reagent results for hepatitis C anti-HCV serological markers and hepatitis B HBsAg serological markers. Results: The statistical test applied in this study proved the distance between the averages of the detection rates calculated with information from all complementary bases in relation to the information from SINAN, analyzed in all the municipalities of the Metropolitan Region I. Therefore, the rates calculated between all bases during the period 2010 to 2015 reflected an increasing trend for HBV and HCV in all municipalities. In the years 2014 and 2015, the rates were higher in all the municipalities analyzed. The data demonstrated that the detection rates of HBV and HCV were above the rate for Brazil and the state of Pará, confirming the existence of underreporting of cases. Conclusion: The cases captured in the complementary databases allowed to improve the sensitivity of the notification system of HBV and HCV in the SINAN base, of the municipalities of the Metropolitan Region I, in the state of Pará