at present they are institutionally separated from brasil sem miseria and a full integration could improve the awareness of households about the social assistance programmes for which they are eligible increasing this awareness could trigger additional strong demand for some of the assistance services offered and lead to bottlenecks in their delivery such an integration would nonetheless enhance the transparency of social assistance policies and help identifying programmes or municipalities that should receive more resources in fact in many countries the progressivity of taxation is a significant redistribution instrument even though public expenditures typically account for three quarters of the overall redistributive impact in oecd countries joumard et al