Analysis Of Bolsa Familia Springs From A Long Tradition Of Welfare And Development

The idea of the welfare state can mean something different in each and every country. There is an ideal model of the welfare state which is where society accepts the responsibility for things such as the ground work and the provision of wide ranging and

In conclusion the Welfare State was created on the principle that the state accepted a responsibility to protect and promote the welfare of all citizens. It must be noted that the system was designed to provide a national minimum, not reduce inequalities. I have looked in detail at all aspects to combat the “five giants “and the popular support when the Beveridge report was introduced. I have also looked at flaws in the system, however the cornerstone of the Beveridgian welfare system, was left almost untouched until the 1980’s.

The analytical findings of Brady, D.( 2009, p.81) stated that “As countries devote a larger share of their economy to welfare, poverty declines steeply.” This happened to Scandinavia, Finland, and Sweden, and European continental countries like Netherlands and Belgium. USA was identified to have high poverty and low welfare expenses. He also made clear that poverty is not necessarily increased by higher welfare generosity.(p.84) and further says that it benefits all rather than just “the elderly or men” (p.87). The 5 features of welfare state were historically proven to reduce poverty through greater generosity with (1) social welfare expenditures, (2) expenditures for public health, (3) social security, (4) government expenditures, and (5) “decommodification” (p.91). Brady, D. (p.92) also contends that public employment is less effective than welfare state generosity as a

Because the Universal health care system in Brazil is free to all citizens those in poverty are not burdened with debt due to unavoidable illnesses therefore socioeconomic disparities are avoided as well. The current health status of citizens in Brazil can be classified as improving. The life expectancy has been increasing as well as decreasing rates in infant death

The Bosla Familia Program is a policy that tries to eliminate child labor through poverty elevation by giving families with a certain low per capita income transfers as long as their children between the ages 6 to 17 years old are enrolled in school (Pais et al., 2013, p. 664). Pais (2013) conducted research on the program and found that it raised school attendance, but it did not stop children from being involved in work activities (p. 666). Even though Pais did not find successful results the United States Department of Labor praises the Bosla Familia program and that it has made notable efforts (para. 2). This praise from the United States Department of Labor has created an inconsistency between which policies are effective and which policies

Throughout the 1800s Latin America was trying to catch up with the rest of the Western world, progressing with increased exports, manufacturing, and industrialization. These advances did not stop the internal problems of most Latin nations. With these changes, as in the rest of the world, there was a growth in urban populations and in the middle class, adding another layer in the social structure; which in turn is just another group that will vie for power, and benefits from the government (180-90). This period is characterized with a large amount of wealth being concentrated in the hands of a few, which on paper shows great economic progress in the form of a GDP number, but there was still great wealth disparity. The switch, in Latin America, from conservatives in the early part of the 1800s, to liberals for the latter half, eventually turned to authoritarian governance; the democratic goals liberals set out to achieve were trashed for power and economic benefits, in keeping with previous generations (191).

Of the three mentioned social issues, education will be further examined in this paper. Bolsa Familia’s effects on education can be analyzed using a framework of financial trade-offs in the decision to continue in school.

The aim of this essay is to discuss and compare the British Welfare system with Germany and Sweden’s welfare systems. A welfare system is the structure of welfare provisions and services that provide a specific social need, but it is not only provided or organised solely by the government (Blakemore, 2001). It is a view that is rooted in individual exchanges between five organisations (State/Government, Market/Private Sector, Family/Kin networks, Local Communities and Civil Society). It reflects the history and cultures of different countries around the world (Haralambos, 2012). It is these providers that assume principal

This essay will consider whether the welfare state has eliminated poverty. It will examine what poverty is and how the definition varies from societies. The essay will look at the aims of the welfare state from conception and how it has changed to present times. The welfare state being analysed is the welfare state in the United Kingdom. It will discuss the nature of the social democratic welfare state and liberal criticisms of the problems this type of state brings. The recent changes to the welfare state will be reviewed and what the consequences of the changes may be. It will then look at recent statistics to determine whether the welfare state has eradicated poverty.

Klasen, Stephan, and D., Felicitas. Nowak-Lehmann. Poverty, Inequality, and Policy in Latin America. Cambridge, MA: MIT, 2009. Print.

Familias in Acción is a conditional cash transfer program that has managed to have some success in reducing levels of poverty in Colombia. The main objective of this program is to provide monetary assistance to families with children under 18 years of age and for them to use the funds to further the children's health and education. This is achieved in numerous ways such as (a) the consumption of food, the development of nutritional and health care habits, and the nutritional monitoring of children; and, (b) school attendance and retention at basic education levels (i.e., elementary, intermediate, and high school education). In exchange, parents are required to comply with a set of responsibilities that include: (a) monitoring their children’s

Brazil’s population is very diverse and has a comparatively small welfare state. Brazil’s high percentage of ethnic diversity includes “47.7 percent Whites, 43.1 percent Mulatto, 7.6 percent blacks, 1.1 percent Asians, and .4 percent Indigenous” (CIA, 2015). Their welfare state, consequently, is small. Kirk Laughlin shows this by saying, “Brazil’s investment in social welfare accounted for 15.5 percent of the country’s GDP in 2010” (Laughlin, 2012). Many of Brazil’s welfare programs are not universal. Brazil has Social Security where people pay taxes out of their employee check. AngloInfo shows this by saying, “If a death, accident, pregnancy, or imprisonment occurs, the government pays the contributor or family” (AngloInfo, 2015). In this welfare program, contributors and their families only get certain entitlements if they or a family member pays into the system. Within Social Security, the people of Brazil also do not get these entitlements all of the time, only if something unexpected happens would the contributor or their family get the social security they paid for. In addition to this, many welfare programs are only given to poor families. Bolsa Family is one of the biggest welfare programs in Brazil. Forbes explains the concept of Bolsa Family by stating, “Families qualify for differing amounts of aid based on whether or not they have children, are looking for a job, and income level,” and other factors (Forbes, 2013). Foadman Siddique from Fairobserver says, “Social welfare programs, such as the Bolsa Familia (Family Allowance), provide cash directly to impoverished families to improve their living standards and to keep children in school” (Siddique, 2013). This information shows that only people living within very poor circumstances are eligible for Bolsa Familia. In addition, Brazil’s interpersonal trust levels were 17.5 out of 140 in 2008 (Bancos De Datos 2015). This shows a very small percentage of interpersonal

Ralph Dolgoff and Ronald Feldstein proposed a schema for examining Welfare programs in their text, Understanding Social Welfare: A search for social justice. This schema gives three basic areas under which these programs could be examined. These areas are that of structural components, alternative program characteristics and ways to evaluate the program. All of the aforementioned areas will be examined in this paper, in relation to a local Social Welfare program - The Targeted Conditional Cash Transfer Programme.

When we attack poverty on many levels, bringing together aid and education, community and economic development, and bringing empowerment to individuals, women and children, then we can begin to see real change in the communities and society. However, society is strutted in such a way that not all

Between 2003 and 2009, poverty fell from 22% to 7% in Brazil. In the same timeframe, income among the poor in Brazil increased seven times as fast as that of the rich. These results came, in large part, because of Brazil’s cash transfer program, Bolsa Familia which presented the country’s poorest households with cash transfers conditional upon meeting health and education standards for their children. Thanks to results like these, the world paid attention to CT programs and began to copy them, including in Africa. The results have been mixed but more hopeful than not. CT programs offer a qualified hope for African development provided that the programs have an adequate scope, proper accountability measures and institutional strength as seen through the case studies of Malawi and Nigeria.