Evaluating the Impact of Brazil’s Bolsa Família: Cash Transfer Programmes in Comparative Perspective

Abstract

Bolsa Família is one of the largest Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programmes in the world, benefiting roughly 11 millions families. It provides a monthly transfer to poor households with children up to 15 years of age and/or a pregnant woman, and a monthly transfer to extremely poor households regardless of their composition. Although Brazil does not have official poverty lines, the programme has set the eligibility threshold at R$ 60 (US$ 33) per capita for extremely poor households and at R$120 (US$66) per capita for poor households. (...)

O Bolsa Família é um dos maiores programas de transferência condicionada de renda (PTCR)