Bolsa Família (Family Grant) Program - 10 Years of Social Protection in Brazil



Want to end poverty? Brazil’s answer: Give people money Here is a brilliant idea for how to help poor people: give them enough money to end their poverty. This is from Brazil’s social development minister Tereza Campello, who was in Washington this week discussing the country’s first decade of experience under the highly-touted Bolsa Familia cash transfer program.

Bolsa Família - A Decade of Social Inclusion in Brazil Brazil Institute and the World Banks's Latin America and the Caribbean Region will host a conversation with Tereza Campello, Brazil's Minister of Social Development and Fight Against Hunger		How cash handouts are remaking lives in Brazil Ten years ago, Brazil set out to do something that few countries have ever overtly attempted: become more equal. The undertaking was unusual, but even more remarkable was the outcome: measurable success.

Cash transfer scheme a source of empowerment for women The Bolsa Familia poverty relief programme has given women in Brazil greater freedom and independence. Maria da Paz, centre, with her daughters, display Bolsa Familia card outside their home in Rocinha.		A decade of pioneering poverty relief Widely praised and often pilloried, Brazil's flagship social welfare programme, known as (Bolsa Família) Family Grant, is still going strong a decade after its inception