Impacto do Programa Bolsa Família no Município de São João da Ponte - MG

• Autor(a) principal: Gusmão, Gisele de Cássia
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: LOCUS Repositório Institucional da UFV
• Texto Completo: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/3234
• topic: Impacto; Programa Bolsa família; São João da Ponte (MG); Effectiveness; Bolsa Família Program; São João da Ponte (MG, Brazil); CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::ECONOMIA::ECONOMIA DO BEM-ESTAR SOCIAL::ECONOMIA DOS PROGRAMAS DE BEM-ESTAR SOCIAL

The objective of this work was to analyze the effectiveness of The Family Allowance Program in the district of São João da Ponte, located in one of the poorest areas of the country, in the north region of Minas Gerais. The analysis of The Family Allowance Program embraces the study on the combat on poverty, by evaluating the quality of the Program in attending to the most vulnerable families (focalization degree), as well as the social and economical differences among two analyzed groups: the Treatment Group (benefited families) and the Control Group (non-benefited families). The data were collected from a field research carried out in the researched city, in the year 2008, when 186 families were interviewed. Therefore, the methodologies used were the Discriminant Analysis and the Impact Evaluation. The results showed that the variables presenting larger discriminatory power (with regard health, nutrition and social attendance) classified 84.4% of the families correctly. As for the focalization, the inclusion mistake waslarger than the exclusion mistake: 28.6% and 10%, respectively. In the Impact Evaluation it was verified that the benefit contributed to 94% of the income increase of the families in extreme poverty, which, in some cases, corresponds to the only source of income. However, the benefit is still insufficient to remove them from the poverty line. In spite of that, its absence would keep 21% of the families in a condition of extreme poverty. Great part of the benefited families (84%) uses the cash for the purchase of food. The Treatment Group had more meals than the Control Group. However, alimentary insecurity is present in both analyzed groups. The Program facilitated the access of the benefited families to public health care, whereas non-benefited families make up of this service less frequently. As for school attendance, the absence of the benefit is not a reason for the children and adolescents of the Control Group to stop attending school. However, the benefit makes the mothers supervise their children's school attendance more rigorously as such is a condition for their stay in the Program.