Overview
- Analyzes the impacts on peoples’ lives of the largest antipoverty social program in the world: the Brazilian Bolsa Família Program
- Presents data collected during five years of interviews with more than 150 women registered in the largest conditional cash transfer program in the world
- Shows how cash transfer programs can promote citizenship by increasing the beneficiaries’ levels of moral, economic and political autonomy
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About this book
This book analyzes the impacts on peoples’ lives of the largest antipoverty social program in the world: the Brazilian Bolsa Família Program. Created by the government of former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Bolsa Família has been for a time the largest conditional cash transfer program in the world, serving more than 50 million Brazilians who had a monthly per capita income of less than USD 50. The program is regarded as one of the key factors behind the significant poverty reduction Brazil experienced during the first decade of the 21st century.
Bolsa Família is neither a credit scheme nor a loan. It is a program of civic inclusion: it aims to help citizens meet their most basic needs and sometimes just to survive. Its goal is to create citizenship, not to merely train the entrepreneurial spirit. Having this in mind, the authors of this book spent five years (2006-2011) interviewingmore than 150 women registered in the program to see how the cash transfers impacted their everyday lives. The authors concluded that the program produces significant social impacts in the beneficiaries’ lives by increasing their levels of moral, economic and political autonomy, promoting citizenship.
Money, Autonomy and Citizenship - The Experience of the Brazilian Bolsa Família will be of interest to both academic researchers and public agents involved with the study, development and implementation of public policies aimed at reducing poverty and promoting social justice.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Walquiria Leão Rego has been full professor of social theory in the Institute of Philosophy and Human Sciences at the State University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil. Dr. Rego is a sociologist and her research has focused in the sociology of political ideas. She currently studies the political and moral effects of the Bolsa Família Program in Brazil.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Money, Autonomy and Citizenship
Book Subtitle: The Experience of the Brazilian Bolsa Família
Authors: Alessandro Pinzani, Walquiria Leão Rego
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01361-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-01360-8Published: 12 November 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-13175-3Published: 10 December 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-01361-5Published: 26 October 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 140
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Additional Information: Jointly published with Editora Unesp, São Paulo. Original Portuguese edition published by Editora Unesp, São Paulo, Brazil, 2014
Topics: Sociology of Citizenship, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, Public Policy