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

This paper is one in a series of World Bank Working Papers that seeks to document the experience of Brazil's Bolsa Família 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...

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Author

Lindert,Kathy A.;

Linder,Anja;

Hobbs,Jason Anthony;

Leroy De La Briere,Benedicte;
Document Date
2007/05/01
Document Type
Other Social Protection Study
Report Number
39853
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Brazil, World,
Region
Other, Latin America and Caribbean,
Disclosure Date
2010/07/01
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
Doc Name
The nuts and bolts of Brazil's bolsa familia program : implementing conditional cash transfers in a decentralized context
Keywords
worst forms of child labor

Language

English

Rel. Proj ID

1W-Conditional Cash Transfers Operational Knowledge -- P108603,BR-BR-SOCIAL PROTECTION PHASE 3 -- P089995

Major Sector

FY17 - Social Protection

FY17 - Public Administration

FY17 - Health

Theme

FY17 - Food Security,FY17 - Other Excluded Groups,FY17 - Job Creation,FY17 - Nutrition and Food Security,FY17 - Social protection delivery systems,FY17 - Social Inclusion,FY17 - Data Development and Capacity Building,FY17 - Social Insurance and Pensions,FY17 - Data production, accessibility and use,FY17 - Social Safety Nets,FY17 - Jobs,FY17 - Nutrition,FY17 - Social Protection

Sector

FY17 - Public Administration - Social Protection,FY17 - Social Protection,FY17 - Health,FY17 - Sub-National Government,FY17 - Central Government (Central Agencies)

Topics

Cash Transfers,Education,Health,Poverty,Social Assistance,

Historic Topics

Health, Nutrition and Population, Poverty Reduction,

Historic SubTopics

Access of Poor to Social Services, Disability, Economic Assistance, Educational Sciences, Health Care Services Industry, Inequality, Services & Transfers to Poor,

Unit Owning

Social Protection Sector (LCSHS); Social Protection Team (HDNSP)

Version Type

Final

Series Name

SP discussion paper ; no. 709;

Product Line

Internal Product,Economic and Sector Work

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Lindert,Kathy A.; Linder,Anja; Hobbs,Jason Anthony; Leroy De La Briere,Benedicte.

The nuts and bolts of Brazil's bolsa familia program : implementing conditional cash transfers in a decentralized context (English). SP discussion paper ; no. 709 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/972261468231296002

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

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