A Conversation with Tereza Campello, Brazil's Minister of Social Development and Fight Against Hunger
On January 29th, the Brazil Institute and the World Bank will host Minister Tereza Campello and 10 years of the Bolsa Familia conditional cash-transfer program.
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Overview
The Bolsa Família Program is widely recognized as possibly the most important social policy adopted by Brazil in the last decades. It has an impressive record of achievements, having helped lift over 22 million Brazilians out of poverty and significantly decrease the country’s historically resilient income inequality. Its 10 year anniversary is an opportunity to assess these achievements, as well as the Program’s current challenges and future, which will directly affect the lives of its 50 million beneficiaries, over a quarter of Brazil’s population.
On January 29, the Brazil Institute and the World Banks's Latin America and the Caribbean Region will host a conversation with Minister Campello on the success and challenges of the innovative conditional cash-transfer program during its first decade.
Media Response
Bolsa Familia: Program Credited with Reducing Brazilian Poverty
CCTV, 02/17/2014
Want to end poverty? Brazil's answer: give people money
Howard Schneider - The Washington Post, 01/31/2014
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Brazil Institute
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