(In) efetividade do estado brasileiro na promoção dos direitos sociais: análise do programa bolsa família como fator para a erradicação da pobreza.

Abstract

This study aims to treat about the Bolsa Família (“Family Grant Program”). Program as a deceleration factor of the consequences of historical evil distribution of income in Brazil, analyzing it in its several perspectives and measuring its impact on the lives of beneficiaries. The program's goal is fighting hunger and it works through the monthly payment of an amount to families enrolled in the Unified Register and that are situated on the line of poverty and extreme poverty. These families are responsible for the fulfilling the conditionalities, as consideration for the support given, must keep their children with regular school attendance, their elderly and pregnant with monitoring by the health system and their adults attending vocational courses. In the long term, the aim of the PBF is to promote the sustainable empowerment of beneficiaries, causing no longer need the benefit because they can, by themselves, keep up worthily. While the socioeconomic indices demonstrate the positive impact of the Bolsa Família, having been noted the reduction of number of poor and extremely poor country, still persist harsh criticism around this kind of public policy, being ordered to fine line between its nature and welfarism, by the influence it can have in the electoral disputes. Despite discussions, we see the need to think about the revitalization of social services public structures, allied to the publics policies of direct income transfer as the PBF, and other policies that promote social rights, can lead Brazil to reach an effectiveness satisfactory level to the legal devices of defence of fundamental rights hitherto proclaimed and legally recognized.