Bolsa Familia Program Analysis

It is important to note that the aim of the Bolsa Familia Program were to contribute to the social inclusion of households that is affected by extreme poverty by providing immediate relief to their situation. The program is also aimed to help in the improvements of their education and health, in order to reduce the intergenerational cycle of poverty reproduction as mentioned earlier in the paper. However, the program is targeted at human development and empowerment among the benefitting households and (Ernesto et al., 2014) refers to it as a conditional cash transfer due to its conditionalities (Ernesto Friedrich et al., 2014). And as a tool to reduce the high rate of poverty and inequality in Brazil, the BFP has shown a positive impact among
The issue on which household should receive cash transfers is a complex one and will not be focussed on in this paper. That’s, the decision behind the formation of the program is political, social, financial and economic motivated and depend also on the goal of the program which defers from the focus of this paper. Bohn (2011), also emphasized that the formation of Bolsa Familia Program played a key role in the power structure of electoral support in Brazil. This effort has helped it to work as a powerful clientelistic tool for politician to gain political support during elections in Brazil (Simone R. Bohn , 2011, p. 54-58). The paper will not focus on the political nature of the program which help to shape the targeting of the program. Furthermore, there are different range of factors or objectives that is associated with the Bolsa Familia Program and the CCTs that the paper will not discuss. The focus of this review is only on the extensive impact of the Bolsa Familia Program on children’s school enrollment, health and child labor in Brazil, both in the context of human capital and breaking the intergenerational cycle of poverty among the children from the benefitting households. The paper is aimed at explaining the impact of Bolsa Familia Program not as a general explanation of the program, but will
Other programs which seek to redress gender inequality in social roles in Brazil and control of resources will not be focus on due to time limitation. The programs aspect that promotes food security and Bolsa Escola Program which is considered indigenous because it was initially designed and financed without the help of the development banks will not touched on in the this paper. Since the focus of the paper is on Brazil, the paper will not discuss the impact of the CCTs in other Latin American