The nuts and bolts of Brazil's bolsa familia program : implementing conditional cash transfers in a decentralized context

Kathy A. Lindert · Anja Linder · Bénédicte de la Brière

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This paper is one in a series of World Bank Working Papers that seeks to document the experience of Brazil's Bolsa Familia Program. It highlights the key nuts and bolts of designing and implementing the BFP in Brazil's decentralized context. Like other conditional cash transfers (CCTs), the BFP seeks to help (a) reduce current poverty and inequality, by providing a minimum level of income for extremely poor families; and (b) break the intergenerational transmission of poverty by conditioning these transfers on beneficiary compliance with human capital requirements (school attendance, vaccines, pre-natal visits). The program also seeks to help empower BFP beneficiaries by linking them to other complementary services.

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2003Conditional Cash Transfers, Schooling, and Child Labor: Micro-Simulating Brazil's Bolsa Escola Program 2004Targeting of Transfers in Developing Countries: Review of Lessons and Experience 2006Redistributing income to the poor and the rich : public transfers in Latin America and the Caribbean 2004The contentious Washington Consensus: reforming the reforms in emerging markets

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