Bolsa Família: A Summary of Its Impacts

Author: Sergei Suarez Dillon Soares

Abstract:Targeted and Conditioned Cash Transfers (CCTs) began hesitatingly and somewhat chaotically in Brazil in 1995 and have grown in relevance ever since. From 1995 to 2003, there were many CCT programs, run by all levels of government and, within the federal government, by five different ministries, with very little coordination among them. While the lack of coordination certainly reduced their effectiveness, there is little doubt that the municipal and state level experimentation was crucial in the design of what was to follow. (…)

Keywords:Bolsa Família, summary, impacts
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ISSN:2318-9118

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