A Importância do Bolsa Família na redução das desigualdades de renda e pobreza em Pernambuco (2003-2013)

Abstract

The state of Pernambuco, IPEA (2011) has high levels of inequality and also shows disparities in poverty and extreme poverty indicators. These factors reveal, therefore, the importance of which is of collective interest the study of income inequality and poverty phenomenon in Pernambuco. Among some public policies to reduce poverty, there is the Family Grant Program, which was created in 2003. The literature, in turn, suggests that it helps in fighting poverty and income inequality, this way, the present work aims to analyze the Family Grant Program, since its implementation by the year 2013, for with this, to show their impact on social variables such as poverty and income inequality. Thus, through the comparative analysis of methods of data these variables, between the periods before and after the implementation of the program and also the intervention model in which we estimated the impact of Bolsa Familia in explicit variables. The results show that the fact that GMP can improve the indicators of poverty and income inequality, but it loses effectiveness from the third year, thus stabilizing at an intermediary level to that achieved in the short term.