From Fome Zero to Bolsa Família: Social Policies and Poverty Alleviation under Lula

By A. Hall. Journal of Latin American Studies, 2006

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Rewarding Lula: Executive Power, Social Policy, and the Brazilian Elections of 2006 (2007, background): “What explains the comparative popularity and greater regional advance of Lula and his government? What implications does this divergence have for the PT’s future as a party? Lula’s new status as an incumbent rather than a challenger is central to the massive geographic shift in the Lula vote between”
Brazil's Bolsa Família: A Double-Edged Sword? (2008, unknown): “Some programmes have adopted a more integrated approach as in Nicaragua, Mexico and Chile’s Programa Puente, as well as in some state-level programmes in Brazil itself (Hall, 2006; Rawlings, 2004).”
Paying for Avoided Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: from Cost Assessment to Scheme Design (2008, background): “REDD initiatives might learn important lessons from other experiences with decentralized conditional cash transfers, such as the Brazilian Family Assistance Program (Bolsa Familia) (Hall 2006).”
The continuing debate about urban bias (2010, background): “…that safety-net programmes have supplemented ‘food baskets’ in the short term, sometimes in response to political fears, but this is often due to hunger and nutritional defi cits among the urban poor, and as a concession when rolling out welfare regimes more generally (Hall, 2006; Molyneux, 2007).”