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The results of the 1st edition of the IDB-IMDS-SBE 2022 Award

The Institute for Mobility and Social Development (IMDS), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Brazilian Society of Econometric...

IMDS launches portal aggregating public policies and social programs around the world

IMDS presents panel of state indicators to assist the election debate

Institute seeks to support the political debate based on data, around themes essential to social development

Paulo Tafner on "Live do Valor": the increase in poverty in Brazil and the prospects for t...

The economist analyzes the evolution of poverty, highlighting the impact of this progression on the chances of social mobility

IMDS analyzes the phenomenon of school dropout

Technical note and three new articles from the institute detail the obstacles in the realization of schooling

Experts discuss impact of technology on literacy practices

IMDS promotes roundtable discussion and analyzes the importance of data and evidence in literacy planning at a World Bank and FGV-EESP Clear...

Meet the winners of the 1ˢᵗ edition of the Evidence Award and the IMDS Trophy - Social Mob...

The initiative of IMDS, ENAP and FGV EESP Clear aimed to recognize and disseminate the management of public policies

IMDS studies the first generation of children from Bolsa Família

IMDS launches a collection of articles assessing the exit or permanence in Cadastro Único (Single Registration) of the first generation of c...

IMDS video presents the concepts and challenges of mobility

Using didactic language, images, and animation, this audiovisual production presents the theme of social mobility and the work of the newly...

First edition of IMDs Annual Report underscores results and reveals the 2022 agenda

Printed and digital document renders accounts and results achieved to society

At an international event, IMDS, the World Bank and IEPS map the effects of the pandemic

Thematic panels bring together experts in a day and a half of discussions, focusing on children and adolescents

Children will pay the highest price for the pandemic in Brazil

Impact on the income of future generations could reach 9% of GDP; this is one of the conclusions of the panel “A Pandemic of Inequality”, pr...

In the Southern Region, educational social mobility still shows a difference between White...

Only 7.3% of Blacks reach higher education or manage to go further, to a master's or doctorate degree.

Women from the Midwest go further in schooling

The Midwest of the country is the region where women go further ahead in their education, compared to all other Brazilian regions, and to me...

In light of Angus Deaton's vision

Arminio Fraga interviews Angus Deaton, Nobel laureate in Economics and one of the leading voices on inequality and social mobility around...

The Northeast is the region in the country where the impact of parents' years of schooling...

Among all the factors that can increase a person's chances of growing in life, Education plays the most relevant role

Education: our greatest challenge

Key to development, education in Brazil reflects and perpetuates inequalities of opportunities in the country

A Brazil that is going farther

With the expansion of supply and financing sources for basic education in the 1990s and 2000s, a good number of Brazilians are already able...

Without computers or the Internet, poorer young people have less opportunities

This is not a new problem and it has had an increased impact during the pandemic, with the closing of schools

Social projects seek to reduce gaps in getting access to technology

Public and private policies on access to technology can change the fate of our young people

Pathways to social mobility

Investing in education is the most obvious way, but in Brazil and elsewhere, there are projects and results in several other areas

A realistic construction of the future

Public policies based on science, which provide everyone with the same chances of advancement in life, are the next challenge for the develo...

Social Mobility in Light of Public Policies and Science

Economist, Doctor in Political Science, Paulo Tafner says that he was, from an early age, bitten by a different "blue fly": not that of powe...

Numbers that enlighten

The system of intergenerational mobility indicators presents data on the correlation of the level of education between parents and children,...