This paper is one in a series of World Bank Working Papers that seeks to document the experience ... more This paper is one in a series of World Bank Working Papers that seeks to document the experience of Brazil’s Bolsa Família Program. It highlights the key “nuts and bolts ” of designing and implementing the BFP in Brazil’s decentralized context. Like other conditional cash transfers (CCTs), the BFP seeks to help (a) reduce current poverty and inequality, by providing a minimum level of income for extremely poor families; and (b) break the intergenerational transmission of poverty by conditioning these transfers on beneficiary compliance with human capital requirements (school attendance, vaccines, pre-natal visits). The program also seeks to help empower BFP beneficiaries by linking them to other complementary services. As the largest conditional cash transfer in the developing world, the BFP has attracted significant attention both in Brazil and beyond. As such, this paper has two key audiences – and two corresponding objectives. First, the primary audience is international, given w...
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This paper is one in a series of World Bank Working Papers that seeks to document the experience ... more This paper is one in a series of World Bank Working Papers that seeks to document the experience of Brazil's Bolsa Familia Program. It highlights the key nuts and bolts of designing and implementing the BFP in Brazil's decentralized context. Like other conditional cash transfers (CCTs), the BFP seeks to help (a) reduce current poverty and inequality, by providing a minimum level of income for extremely poor families; and (b) break the intergenerational transmission of poverty by conditioning these transfers on beneficiary compliance with human capital requirements (school attendance, vaccines, pre-natal visits). The program also seeks to help empower BFP beneficiaries by linking them to other complementary services.
Esta publicacao e fruto de uma pesquisa contratada pelo BID em 2015 que se dedicou ao estudo e av... more Esta publicacao e fruto de uma pesquisa contratada pelo BID em 2015 que se dedicou ao estudo e avaliacao das operacoes urbanas implementadas na cidade de Sao Paulo, cuja experiencia comumente se confunde com o proprio instrumento. O objetivo da pesquisa foi identificar os atributos de viabilidade de Operacoes Urbanas Consorciadas, evidenciados a partir da experiencia paulistana, e registrar as licoes e recomendacoes que se podem tirar a partir do estudo de caso das quatro operacoes urbanas vigentes no municipio: Centro, Agua Branca, Faria Lima e Agua Espraiada.
This paper is one in a series of World Bank Working Papers that seeks to document the experience ... more This paper is one in a series of World Bank Working Papers that seeks to document the experience of Brazil's Bolsa Família Program. It highlights the key "nuts and bolts" of designing and implementing the BFP in Brazil's decentralized context. Like other conditional cash transfers (CCTs), the BFP seeks to help (a) reduce current poverty and inequality, by providing a minimum level of income for extremely poor families; and (b) break the intergenerational transmission of poverty by conditioning these transfers on beneficiary compliance with human capital requirements (school attendance, vaccines, pre-natal visits). The program also seeks to help empower BFP beneficiaries by linking them to other complementary services. As the largest conditional cash transfer in the developing world, the BFP has attracted significant attention both in Brazil and beyond. As such, this paper has two key audiences-and two corresponding objectives. First, the primary audience is international, given worldwide interest in the Bolsa Família Program. This international target audience thus includes: policy makers, practitioners, and potential future practitioners of CCTs working in other countries who are interested in learning more abut Brazil's experience with the BFP, particularly given its decentralized context. For this audience, the paper highlights some of the key features of the program including: • The program as a reform program, which consolidated four pre-reform programs into one, building on Brazil's decade of experience with CCTs; • The size and rapid expansion of the program, now reaching 11.1 million families (over 46 million people), making it the largest program of this type in the world; • The very impressive targeting accuracy of the program, and the recently demonstrated impacts on reducing poverty and inequality; • The implementation of the BFP in Brazil's decentralized context and the development and use of innovative performance-based management mechanisms to promote incentives for quality implementation in this context so as to overcome the "principal-agent" dilemma; • The role of the BFP as a unifying force in social policy, integrating social policy both horizontally across sectors and vertically across levels of government; and • The "natural laboratory for innovation" that has emerged in Brazil's decentralized context, for experimenting with exit policies and graduation approaches. Finally, we are grateful to endless patience and support from the peer reviewers to the research program (the "BRASA"): Margaret Grosh and Pedro Olinto, both of the World Bank, as well as to Francesca Bastagli and the team in MDS for their comments on an earlier version of this paper.
Any dispute related to the use of the works of the IDB that cannot be settled amicably shall be s... more Any dispute related to the use of the works of the IDB that cannot be settled amicably shall be submitted to arbitration pursuant to the UNCITRAL rules. The use of the IDB's name for any purpose other than for attribution, and the use of IDB's logo shall be subject to a separate written license agreement between the IDB and the user and is not authorized as part of this CC-IGO license. Note that link provided above includes additional terms and conditions of the license.
This paper is one in a series of World Bank Working Papers that seeks to document the experience ... more This paper is one in a series of World Bank Working Papers that seeks to document the experience of Brazil's Bolsa Família Program. It highlights the key nuts and bolts of designing and implementing the BFP in Brazil's decentralized context. Like other conditional cash transfers (CCTs), the ...
This paper is one in a series of World Bank Working Papers that seeks to document the experience ... more This paper is one in a series of World Bank Working Papers that seeks to document the experience of Brazil’s Bolsa Família Program. It highlights the key “nuts and bolts ” of designing and implementing the BFP in Brazil’s decentralized context. Like other conditional cash transfers (CCTs), the BFP seeks to help (a) reduce current poverty and inequality, by providing a minimum level of income for extremely poor families; and (b) break the intergenerational transmission of poverty by conditioning these transfers on beneficiary compliance with human capital requirements (school attendance, vaccines, pre-natal visits). The program also seeks to help empower BFP beneficiaries by linking them to other complementary services. As the largest conditional cash transfer in the developing world, the BFP has attracted significant attention both in Brazil and beyond. As such, this paper has two key audiences – and two corresponding objectives. First, the primary audience is international, given w...
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This paper is one in a series of World Bank Working Papers that seeks to document the experience ... more This paper is one in a series of World Bank Working Papers that seeks to document the experience of Brazil's Bolsa Familia Program. It highlights the key nuts and bolts of designing and implementing the BFP in Brazil's decentralized context. Like other conditional cash transfers (CCTs), the BFP seeks to help (a) reduce current poverty and inequality, by providing a minimum level of income for extremely poor families; and (b) break the intergenerational transmission of poverty by conditioning these transfers on beneficiary compliance with human capital requirements (school attendance, vaccines, pre-natal visits). The program also seeks to help empower BFP beneficiaries by linking them to other complementary services.
Esta publicacao e fruto de uma pesquisa contratada pelo BID em 2015 que se dedicou ao estudo e av... more Esta publicacao e fruto de uma pesquisa contratada pelo BID em 2015 que se dedicou ao estudo e avaliacao das operacoes urbanas implementadas na cidade de Sao Paulo, cuja experiencia comumente se confunde com o proprio instrumento. O objetivo da pesquisa foi identificar os atributos de viabilidade de Operacoes Urbanas Consorciadas, evidenciados a partir da experiencia paulistana, e registrar as licoes e recomendacoes que se podem tirar a partir do estudo de caso das quatro operacoes urbanas vigentes no municipio: Centro, Agua Branca, Faria Lima e Agua Espraiada.
This paper is one in a series of World Bank Working Papers that seeks to document the experience ... more This paper is one in a series of World Bank Working Papers that seeks to document the experience of Brazil's Bolsa Família Program. It highlights the key "nuts and bolts" of designing and implementing the BFP in Brazil's decentralized context. Like other conditional cash transfers (CCTs), the BFP seeks to help (a) reduce current poverty and inequality, by providing a minimum level of income for extremely poor families; and (b) break the intergenerational transmission of poverty by conditioning these transfers on beneficiary compliance with human capital requirements (school attendance, vaccines, pre-natal visits). The program also seeks to help empower BFP beneficiaries by linking them to other complementary services. As the largest conditional cash transfer in the developing world, the BFP has attracted significant attention both in Brazil and beyond. As such, this paper has two key audiences-and two corresponding objectives. First, the primary audience is international, given worldwide interest in the Bolsa Família Program. This international target audience thus includes: policy makers, practitioners, and potential future practitioners of CCTs working in other countries who are interested in learning more abut Brazil's experience with the BFP, particularly given its decentralized context. For this audience, the paper highlights some of the key features of the program including: • The program as a reform program, which consolidated four pre-reform programs into one, building on Brazil's decade of experience with CCTs; • The size and rapid expansion of the program, now reaching 11.1 million families (over 46 million people), making it the largest program of this type in the world; • The very impressive targeting accuracy of the program, and the recently demonstrated impacts on reducing poverty and inequality; • The implementation of the BFP in Brazil's decentralized context and the development and use of innovative performance-based management mechanisms to promote incentives for quality implementation in this context so as to overcome the "principal-agent" dilemma; • The role of the BFP as a unifying force in social policy, integrating social policy both horizontally across sectors and vertically across levels of government; and • The "natural laboratory for innovation" that has emerged in Brazil's decentralized context, for experimenting with exit policies and graduation approaches. Finally, we are grateful to endless patience and support from the peer reviewers to the research program (the "BRASA"): Margaret Grosh and Pedro Olinto, both of the World Bank, as well as to Francesca Bastagli and the team in MDS for their comments on an earlier version of this paper.
Any dispute related to the use of the works of the IDB that cannot be settled amicably shall be s... more Any dispute related to the use of the works of the IDB that cannot be settled amicably shall be submitted to arbitration pursuant to the UNCITRAL rules. The use of the IDB's name for any purpose other than for attribution, and the use of IDB's logo shall be subject to a separate written license agreement between the IDB and the user and is not authorized as part of this CC-IGO license. Note that link provided above includes additional terms and conditions of the license.
This paper is one in a series of World Bank Working Papers that seeks to document the experience ... more This paper is one in a series of World Bank Working Papers that seeks to document the experience of Brazil's Bolsa Família Program. It highlights the key nuts and bolts of designing and implementing the BFP in Brazil's decentralized context. Like other conditional cash transfers (CCTs), the ...
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