INEQUALITY AND POLITICS IN BRAZIL: BOLSA FAMILIA AND BEYOND
INEQUALITY AND POLITICS IN BRAZIL: BOLSA FAMILIA AND BEYOND

Summary/Abstract: The Bolsa Familia program of money transfers to the roughly 50 million poorat the bottom of the pyramid is internationally known but its success was grounded ina much wider set of 149 programs constituting an integrated and inter-sector policy.With inequality presently soaring not only in Brazil but throughout the world the aimof this paper is to understand how inclusive and sustainable policies can work bothfor society and the economy and assess their performance in Brazil as an illustrationof institutional change as a key approach. Equally essential is understanding the powerof the global financial interests which generated the drama of 1 percent having morewealth than the other 99 percent. Both mechanisms, of inclusion and exclusion, areanalyzed here, on the basis of the Brazilian experience.

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