New Strategy for Poverty Eradication in Brazil: the Emergence of the Brasil Sem Miséria Plan
Author:
Rômulo Paes-Sousa
Abstract:Brazilian social protection programmes have had consistent effects in reducing poverty and inequality among their respective vulnerable groups: children, adolescents and pregnant and lactating women. In 2011, President-elect Rousseff launched Plano Brasil Sem Miséria (PBSM — Brazil without Extreme Poverty), a strategy to eradicate extreme poverty by 2014, targeting 15 million extremely poor Brazilians. (…)
Keywords:strategy, poverty eradication, Brazil, emergence, Sem Miséria Plan
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