Beschreibung:
This book analyzes the impacts on peoples' lives of the largest antipoverty social program in the world: the Brazilian Bolsa Família Program. Created by the government of former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Bolsa Família has been for a time the largest conditional cash transfer program in the world, serving more than 50 million Brazilians who had a monthly per capita income of less than USD 50. The program is regarded as one of the key factors behind the significant poverty reduction Brazil experienced during the first decade of the 21st century.
Chapter 1: Hearing the voice of the poor.- Chapter 2: Theoretical background.- Chapter 3: The Interviews.- Chapter 4: Poverty in Brazil.- Chapter 5: Money and autonomy.