O combate á pobreza e a prevalência da assistência social: uma análise de 2003 A 2014

Abstract

Poverty is a subject of extreme importance and social relevance, and for this reason it is necessary to raise debates and seek mechanisms to combat this which is one of the most cruel expressions of the so-called "social question". The objective of this study is to analyze the levels of Brazilian poverty in the period of PT governments from 2003 to 2014, as well as the prevalence of Social Assistance. It is a bibliographical study that analyzed and systematized secondary data seeking to understand how the phenomenon of poverty was identified in the period under study and what mechanisms and efforts were undertaken to address it. In this sense the work is divided into three chapters where the first one shows the historical foundations of poverty and its main forms of conceptualization. The second deals with the consolidation of Brazilian poverty and its main intervention models. And the third that analyzes the period from 2003 to 2014 seeks to identify the levels of poverty, as well as the model of intervention adopted by the PT governments and the results achieved. The analysis seeks to show how, historically, Brazilian poverty has been consolidated as well as the means to cope with it, the study shows that since the year 2000 poverty has been reduced, but the levels of poverty and inequality in Brazil are still alarming. The main results show that, although Brazil, through public policies, especially those of a social nature that have had greater amplitude since 2003 and of the social programs of income transfer, are able to alleviate the symptoms of poverty immediately, are not enough to fight it.