Bolsa is supposed to require parents keep their children in school in exchange for the payments.

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Mexican stock prices slipped 1.0%, with the Bolsa index losing 307.16 points, to 29, 618.11.

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Rio de Janeiro is designing a new programme, called Bolsa Carioca, to do exactly that.

ECONOMIST: Brazil's Bolsa Fam��lia

This, combined with Bolsa Familia, has made a dent on inequality, the most persistent symptom of Brazil's failure.

ECONOMIST: Brazil

Much of the thinking (and paying) has been successfully developed in the Bolsa Floresta scheme in the Brazilian Amazon.

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Brazil's main cash-transfer programme, called Bolsa Familia, provides help to 11m families, or 60% of all those in the poorest tenth.

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Many families receive the bolsa familia, a benefit paid on the condition that their children get vaccinated and sent to school.

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It invested some 3 billion reais in sanitation over two years and beefed up income transfer: Bolsa-Escola now reaches some 5m families.

ECONOMIST: Social policy in Brazil

Chief among these is the increased scope of Bolsa Familia, a programme of cash transfers that benefits 11m poor families, rewarding them if their children go to school and get vaccinated.

ECONOMIST: Brazil

The remaining shares trade on the Mexican Bolsa.

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The strong peso has hurt exports, but not as much as last year's falloff in demand from the U.S. So far this year the Mexican Bolsa is up 10% in dollar terms, but stocks are still relatively cheap at 17 times earnings.

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