| Hello, *|NOME|* We have reached the end of 2024 with joy and satisfaction, as we conclude another year of intense achievements at IMDS. We reaffirm our commitment to promoting social mobility in Brazil, combining production of knowledge, partnerships with public entities and researchers, and a lot of dissemination of technical information on the subject. In this Letter, we turn our gaze to what we have done, the partnerships we have maintained and signed and the directions we will be taking in 2025. The expansion of our portfolio was significant: we published four Technical Notes, four dashboards, in addition to these biweekly Letters, which reached the 60th edition this December. Among the topics addressed in these publications, we highlight the deepening of issues such as life expectancy by skin color/race, child and youth poverty, nutritional inequalities, maternal and child health, and the effects of climate shocks on the migration of individuals and families, distinguishing them between beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries of the Bolsa Família Program. The production of IMDS was disseminated by the main media outlets in the country in more than 50 mentions, including reports and articles, reinforcing the institute's commitment to bringing the subject of social mobility to the center of national discussions.
In addition to the technical-scientific products, we maintained partnerships for technical support to states and municipalities, through Technical Cooperation Agreements (TCA), a guideline set by our Board of Directors. We continued the partnerships previously signed with the municipalities of Vitória (ES) and Rio de Janeiro, and with the states of Rio Grande do Sul and Mato Grosso do Sul, in addition to the Ministry of Social Development. We signed new agreements with the State of São Paulo and the State of Piauí and renewed the partnership with the municipality of Rio de Janeiro for a new phase of proposing solutions.
The scopes of partnerships are multiple. They involve the evaluation of the expansion of full-time education under the dimensions of academic performance and school dropout, the design of an integrated policy for productive inclusion, the development of a statistical tool capable of identifying students more likely to fail and the development of a methodology for estimating the cost by type of service provided by Social Assistance, among others. It is important to highlight that IMDS does not use public resources in its projects, having as a counterpart only the dissemination of results, properly adapted, on our website www.imdsbrasil.org, in order to serve as a methodological reference for managers throughout the country. In addition to all this work of technical support and applied research, and seeking to foster the academic production of research that deals with social mobility, this year we promoted another edition of the IMDS-SBE Award, granted during the 46th Brazilian Meeting of Econometrics, of the Brazilian Society of Econometrics (SBE). At the same event, we held the special session "Childhood and the Challenges of Literacy", a theme of fundamental relevance for the improvement of education in Brazil, with the participation of the Ayrton Senna Institute and the Edube Institute, strengthening the dialogue on one of the foundations of human and social development. When projecting the year 2025, we renewed our enthusiasm with a research agenda that includes topics such as the Young Apprentice program, impacts of mass layoffs, neighborhood effects on mobility and well-being, new studies on the Bolsa Família Program, the development of an unprecedented index of well-being according to skin color or race for Brazil and regions, and a broad discussion on education in Brazil, starting with the in-depth analysis of literacy. What's more, new dashboards are scheduled, and we plan to launch an Atlas of social mobility in Brazil in the first quarter, referenced with various indicators in an interactive and accessible visual format. We will also continue to feed our Impact Platform of public policies and programs, which can greatly aid public managers, and which has been deserving of repeated praise from the most varied users. We have a lot to celebrate at the end of 2024 and great expectations in the horizons that open up in 2025. We wish you all Happy Holidays and a New Year full of hope, health, joy and achievements. See you in January, in the next "IMDS Letter"! Paulo Tafner CEO |
