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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.

Date & Time

Wednesday
Jan. 29, 2014
3:30pm – 5:00pm ET

Location

6th Floor, Woodrow Wilson Center
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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

Images from the event can be viewed here

Image courtesy of flickr user Bolsa Familia...

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Brazil Institute

The Brazil Institute—the only country-specific policy institution focused on Brazil in Washington—works to foster understanding of Brazil’s complex reality and to support more consequential relations between Brazilian and US institutions in all sectors. The Brazil Institute plays this role by producing independent research and programs that bridge the gap between scholarship and policy, and by serving as a crossroads for leading policymakers, scholars and private sector representatives who are committed to addressing Brazil’s challenges and opportunities.  Read more

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