Evaluating the Impact of Brazil's Bolsa Família: Cash Transfer Programs in Comparative Perspective

Autor:	Fábio Veras Soares, Rafael Perez Ribas, Rafael Guerreiro Osório
Rok vydání:	2010
Předmět:	Cultural Studies History Multidisciplinary Sociology and Political Science Literature and Literary Theory General Arts and Humanities Anthropology Geography Planning and Development Political Science and International Relations Development General Economics Econometrics and Finance
Zdroj:	Latin American Research Review. 45:173-190
ISSN:	1542-4278 0023-8791
DOI:	10.1017/s0023879100009390
Popis:	This note reviews the targeting performance of Bolsa Família and its impact on inequality, poverty, consumption, education, health care, and labor force participation. Bolsa Família has several design and implementation characteristics that distance it from a pure human-capital-based conditional cash transfer model. For that reason, we compare the impact of Bolsa Família to that of other conditional cash transfer programs in Latin America, such as in Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, and Chile. We show that, as have other programs, Bolsa Família has helped reduce inequality and extreme poverty and has improved education outcomes, without having a negative impact on labor force participation. Where the program has failed to have its intended impact, in health and nutrition, supply-side constraints seem to be the principal problem.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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