It is difficult to exaggerate the relevance of the "public transfers to the private sector" in modern Brazil. Few studies, however, analyze the evolution of these transfers as a whole. This paper attempts to fillt his gap in the literature in three different ways. First, it shows how to construct an annual series compatible with the current Brazilian national accounts system (2000) over the period 1995-2012. Second, it refines and extends (up until 2012) the previous effort of Santos et al. (2010) in constructing quarterly estimates of these transfers (disaggregated in its main components). Finally, it provides an analysis of the dynamics of the aforementioned transfers in the 1995-2012 years.
Brazilian government transfers to households; Brazilian quarterly national accounts; Brazilian social benefits other than social transfers in kind
