Jones, Hayley;
(2022)
Brazil's Bolsa Familia Programme: Aspirations and Realities of Poverty Reduction and Intergenerational Change.
Development and Change
, 53
(3)
pp. 600-622.
10.1111/dech.12706.
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Abstract
This article considers the transformative potential of conditional cash transfers to address intergenerational poverty. Drawing on empirical evidence collected through qualitative research in the northeast of Brazil, it traces notions of intergenerational change and continuity amongst young recipients of the Bolsa Família programme (BFP) and their families. It argues that the BFP has contributed to raising expectations and aspirations of social mobility, through a policy narrative that explicitly links education to poverty reduction alongside some relatively limited but nonetheless significant intergenerational changes in material conditions and access to education. However, rising aspirations have not been matched by a concomitant expansion of opportunities available to poor young people in education and the labour market. The article thus highlights the contradictions that arise between policy narratives, the aspirations these narratives engender, and the realities of young people's everyday lives.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Brazil's Bolsa Familia Programme: Aspirations and Realities of Poverty Reduction and Intergenerational Change |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1111/dech.12706 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12706 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2022 The Authors. Development and Change published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of International Institute of Social Studies. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10149252 |
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