Bolsa Família: uma análise a partir da concepção dos beneficiários de São Felipe - BA

Abstract

This study proposed to evaluate the Bolsa Família Program from conception of the beneficiaries of the municipality of San Felipe - BA. Interest in the subject is based on highlighting the program acquired in combating poverty in the country and the positive results achieved in reducing income inequality. Questions the ability of the program to break the intergenerational poverty, despite recognizing its important function of alleviating poverty in the short term. To achieve the objectives of the research was an analysis of theoretical and conceptual social policies, as well as a study of its trajectory to delineation programs of conditional cash transfer. Then were analyzed effects of these cash transfer programs in Latin America confronting them with secondary data and discussions relating to poverty in the region. Soon after is discussed Brazilian social protection system, to then promote a debate about institutional strategies Bolsa Família in combating poverty in order to provide analytical support for the assessment to be made. Finally, is presented the evaluation of the program based on the assessment made from the conception of the local beneficiaries. The program, while important for the beneficiaries and positive impacts in the short term, proved to be limited to promote the outrage of poverty.