New Strategy for Poverty Eradication in Brazil: the Emergence of the Brasil Sem Miséria Plan

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. (…)