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Brazil's Bolsa Família Programme: Aspirations and Realities of Poverty Reduction and Intergenerational Change

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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.

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  • Hayley Jones, 2022. "Brazil's Bolsa Família Programme: Aspirations and Realities of Poverty Reduction and Intergenerational Change," Development and Change, International Institute of Social Studies, vol. 53(3), pages 600-622, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:devchg:v:53:y:2022:i:3:p:600-622
    DOI: 10.1111/dech.12706
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