From the Brazilian Income Transfer Program to Brazil Assistance

Challenges and Achievements According to a Theory-Driven Evaluation Research on the Program

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ID5166459
AutoresDelaine Martins Costa (0000-0003-2222-5676, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz), Rosana Magalhães (0000-0003-3831-8877, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz), Maria Lúcia De Macedo Cardoso (0000-0002-3809-4730, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz)
Año2023
Volumen39
Número7
Fecha de publicación2023-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCadernos de Saude Publica (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0102-311X • E-ISSN: 1678-4464
EditorialFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/0102-311xen207922
OpenAlexW4384572391
SCIELO_PIDS0102-311X2023000703001
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas19

The recent COVID-19 pandemic has led many countries to adopt emergency cash transfer policies as a way to contain the economic and humanitarian crisis. Such initiatives were developed in a context of exacerbated gender, race, ethnicity and class inequalities resulting from physical and social distancing measures. The article analyzes, by means of an exploratory study and the so-called theory-driven evaluation of the program, the theoretical premises of the Brazilian Income Transfer Program (2003), Brazilian Emergency Assistance (2020) and Brazil Assistance (2021) programs, and their corresponding implementation dynamics. As cash transfer programs are given centrality in the contemporary public agenda, the conclusion is that evaluating their limits and advances - as to theoretical conception and mechanisms triggered in each context - contributes to trace evidence about their effectiveness in addressing long-term inequalities and those inequalities that arise in health emergency contexts

Cash · Cash transfers · Centrality · Context (archaeology) · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) · Economic growth · Economics · Ethnic group · Exploratory research · Geography · Inequality · Pandemic · Political science · Poverty · Social distance · Social science · Sociology · Evaluation and Performance Assessment · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Medicine · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare