Anti-poverty policies in Brazil: Reviewing the past ten years

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dc.contributor.authorAndrews, Christina W. [UNESP]
dc.contributor.institutionUniversidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
dc.date.accessioned2014-05-27T11:21:08Z
dc.date.available2014-05-27T11:21:08Z
dc.date.issued2004-09-01
dc.description.abstractThis article reviews the main anti-poverty policies implemented in Brazil from the early 1990s to the early 2000s. These include focused and universal policies - such as education and health care - as well as the rural development, a 'middle ground' policy. Though the inter-municipal consortium, a new institutional arrangement gathering municipalities together, has emerged as a promising policy implementation tool, anti-poverty policies have faced implementation difficulties. Lack of coordination between different programs, even within the same policy area, has impaired their effectiveness. As a consequence, compensatory programs, based on monetary transfers to poor families, which face fewer implementation problems, have become the dominant type of anti-poverty policies in Brazil. Despite these shortcomings, a small Brazilian state, Santa Catarina, was able to reduce by 46 percent the number of individuals living in poverty in just ten years. This is a sign that fighting poverty can, after all, be a feasible endeavor. © 2004 IIAS, SAGE Publications (London, Thousand Oaks, CA and New Delhi).en
dc.description.affiliationDepartment of Public Administration UNESP, São Paulo
dc.description.affiliationUnespDepartment of Public Administration UNESP, São Paulo
dc.format.extent477-488
dc.identifierhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020852304046202
dc.identifier.citationInternational Review of Administrative Sciences, v. 70, n. 3, p. 477-488, 2004.
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0020852304046202
dc.identifier.issn0020-8523
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-4944234187
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11449/67849
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000224001600004
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofInternational Review of Administrative Sciences
dc.relation.ispartofjcr1.988
dc.relation.ispartofsjr1,179
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dc.sourceScopus
dc.subjectcomparative study
dc.subjectpoverty alleviation
dc.subjectsocial policy
dc.subjectstrategic approach
dc.subjectBrazil
dc.subjectSouth America
dc.titleAnti-poverty policies in Brazil: Reviewing the past ten yearsen
dc.typeArtigo
dcterms.licensehttp://www.sagepub.com/authors/journal/permissions.sp#7

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