Anti-Poverty Policies in Brazil

Reviewing the Past Ten Years

Bibliographic Data

ID9961683
AuthorsChristina W Andrews (0000-0003-4461-8892, Department of Public Administration, Universidade Estadual Paulista ‘Júlio de Mesquita Filho’ (UNESP), Brazil., corresponding author)
Year2004
Volume70
Issue3
Pages477-488
Publication date2004-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Review of Administrative Sciences (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-8523 • E-ISSN: 1461-7226
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0020852304046202
OpenAlexW1968755458
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited1

This 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

Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Face (sociological concept · Political science · Poverty · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Rural Development and Agriculture

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