This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.
In the Media
Latest
Edition 66 – Improving the quality of literacy is reducing inequalities and protecting the most disadvantaged
Edition 65 – Water and sewage: essential for children’s health
Edition 64 – IMDS presents an unprecedented predictor for the identification of students prone to school failure in the city of Rio de Janeiro
← return to In the Media
*Access to content subject to each outlet's subscription policies
Investment in basic education is essential to reduce inequality
Public education is one of the most effective policies in combating inequalities in Brazil, according to an exclusive survey by Made/USP (Research Center in Macroeconomics of Inequalities). The data show that expenditures in education reduce the index that measures income difference by up to 9.62%.
A recent report by Folha also showed how the chances of a child repeating the low level of schooling of its parents is twice as likely to happen in Brazil as in the United States, according to data from the IMDS (Institute for Mobility and Social Development).
Click to access *