Boalsa Familia

In conclusion, reading about Carolina’s life has had a huge impact on my learnings of Brazil. While reading this book, I was able to reflect on what we learned and discussed about life in the favelas in class. When I hear of Brazil, I always hear of the wealthy places, pretty women and beautiful sites to visit. However, the favelas and life of the poor people living in Brazil is rarely mentioned and talked about. Reading Carolina’s diary gave me a different image of the country and showed Brazil in another light. Carolina’s diary gave me more insight on what the daily life of a favelado is like and what people who live in the favelas experience on a daily

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

Former slaves discovered a deep feeling of insecurity after the downfall of the monarchy. Since Brazil had always been a paternalistic culture (an Emperor and an autocrat of a patriarchal house to protect them), it even led to some men and women becoming nostalgic of their former ‘big houses’, as they were known, and were desperate for the patriarchal assistance they once had in abundance. Yet, the popular president Getulio Vargas finally understood the sociological and psychological situation of the former slaves and gave a large part of the Brazilian labour population protection against exploitation from commercial

The Proposal of Constitutional Amendment known as PEC 55 will limit basic human rights and it can affect the most vulnerable citizens, causing a retrograde step for the country. This austerity measure establishes that growth in annual public spending will be limited to the previous year’s inflation rate, freezing federal expenditures for the next 20 years. This proposal is inserted in a context of Brazilian political and economic crisis, which reached its peak in 2016. First and most important, if the bill passes, it will restrict government expenses on important sectors of society such as public health, education and social assistance, which affects mainly low-income people in the country. According to Philip Alston, the United Nations Special

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

Impoverished parents tend to live in towns with underfunded school districts. They are unable to give their children the proper resources to exceed. Those children go on to struggle to a livable wage, some of them even turning to crime to make ends meet. The government attempting to shorten the gap of children growing up in poverty and those growing up in the middle class. Bargain (2012) describes a few ways the government can make a difference for spending on children. The government can give cash to parents to spend on kids, which has been shown to be ineffective as only a small portion goes to the kids. More effectively, the government can create subsidies for children’s products, which has been shown to increase spending on children. Cascio (2013) speaks about how to close the education gap. Creating cash incentives for schools to increase test scores through programs such as No Child Left Behind has been shown to have some effect on helping bridge the educational gap. However, not enough is being spent to make a large enough

Specifically, blacks in Brazil “suffer higher rates of homelessness, landlessness,illiteracy, and unemployment than others. ”(pg.134) Clearly, the black population of Brazil experiencessocial and economic inequality due to their

Conditional Cash Transfers are cash grants given to poor families providing they follow the conditions necessary in order to receive these grants. The conditions vary with each CCT program implemented in each country but mainly rely on school attendance, healthcare checkups, and nutritional workshops. But in order to identify how they work efficiently, in-depth analysis is provided.

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.

Northeast Brazil is one of the poorest areas in a country where there is an incredibly great divide between the wealthy and the poor. Similar to the situation in the United States, many impoverished families are caught in a cycle where being born into poverty means your resources are less accessible than that of someone born into money. As a result, the young people remain impoverished throughout their lives and have children that face the same struggle continuing the cycle.. Education is one of the critical resources that may be able to assist in removing someone from an impoverished situation. Unfortunately, in places with a large population of poor, the school systems tend to be in poor condition or non-existent.

Brazil is under a currently a significant growth trajectory. What could be considered one of the great national BRIC powers of the next century, what is hindering Brazil are its poor investments in education, cumbersome and complex tax structure, unemployment rate and poverty. Currently 80% of Brazil’s population is situated in the urban complexes such as Sao Paulo, Rio and Belo Horizonte. However, there is a clear and distinct caste system with a very large poor class that is only now being able to move into the more working-type middle class. This poor class is usually distinguished by the color of someone’s skin and national origins. As such, an undertone of discrimination in ever-present in Brazil where one can witness the disparity between whites and blacks in the country. Most MNEs doing business there are staffed up by what is considered the “upper class” and most of these employees are white. Still, although this is the case there are laws that protect discrimination. “However, this is mostly a formality that is not really followed in practice nor has there ever been any form of affirmative action to bring the working class up to par with the varied races of the

"Conditional cash transfer programs is poverty alleviation programs that which provide funds to children's actions such as school attendance, their performance and also health care (BoBonis)". The levels of female investment of household resource for their children after divorce. Divorce could increase as a woman greater economic independence. Government transfer programs which is recognized on marital transitions on welfare policies across developed countries it has mostly been examined in middle and low income countries. When a child is growing up in a single parent household it has an effect on the child education

The industrialization of the 20th century brought with it a need for an evolution of the sociocultural norms of modern Brazilian society. Higher labor demands and a rise in consumerism challenged pre-established gender norms of the 19th century, and pushed Brazilian society towards more efficient and modern gender expectations (Besse 18).

The findings of all four interventions presented above have demonstrated their effectiveness in addressing their respective goals. PACE/CANNES gave parents tools to better address practical parenting issues and promote child-competence, in the follow-up assessment these parents reported having an increase in positive parenting skills and a reduced risk of child abuse.

Poverty, or the inability to afford basic human needs, is an issue that is spread worldwide. There are people everywhere who cannot afford shelter, food, healthcare, or education. It seems easy enough to ignore the bum asking for change on the street, but it becomes near impossible in regions where whole families are begging on the street. This rings true in Latin America and it is extremely frustrating to see social inequality this extreme. This essay will examine how much poverty exists in Latin America, why the amount of poverty is so disproportionate and what can possibly be done to alleviate the amount of poverty in these countries.