Pro-Poor Governance: Evidence on Incentivizing Policy Implementation in Brazil

To analyse the relationship between municipal characteristics and governance implementation as measured by the IGD, this study combines sociodemographic data from national censuses, data on the Bolsa Família programme, including the IGD, from the Ministry of Social Development, annual administrative data reported by IBGE, financial data in the FINBRA database, electoral data from the TSE and coding of political parties’ ideology by Borges and Vidigal (2023). The data cover the period when the IGD has been operational and for which data are widely available, from 2007-2021.