Uma análise do Programa Bolsa Família no combate à pobreza e à desigualdade no Brasil

• Ano de defesa: 2025
• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Charlisson Nogueira
• Orientador(a): Gutierrez, Carlos Enrique Carrasco
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Católica de Brasília
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa Stricto Sensu em Políticas Públicas
• Departamento: Escola de Humanidades, Negócios e Direito
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Bolsa Família; Transferência de renda; Pobreza; Desigualdade; Políticas públicas
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Income transfer; Poverty; Inequality; Public policy
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::CIENCIA POLITICA
• Link de acesso: https://bdtd.ucb.br:8443/jspui/handle/tede/3708

The Bolsa Família Program (PBF), created in 2003, has become Brazil's main public income transfer policy, aimed at combating poverty and social inequality. This study seeks to analyze the effects of the PBF on the lives of its beneficiaries through a comparative analysis of income and inequality indicators, constructed based on per capita household income before and after the benefit. Pre-benefit income consists exclusively of labor earnings, while post-benefit income includes the sum of labor earnings and the amounts received through the PBF. The analysis is based on secondary data from the Continuous National Household Sample Survey (PNAD Contínua) conducted by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), referring to the years 2012 and 2023. The indicators applied include the Gini, Atkinson, and Theil coefficients, as well as the Poverty Gap and the Severity of Extreme Poverty. The results show that the program played a decisive role in reducing extreme poverty among beneficiaries, with significant reductions in the analyzed indicators. This effectiveness was even more pronounced in 2023, a year in which the program was redesigned to increase benefit amounts and enhance its focus on families in situations of greater vulnerability. Despite these advances, the effects on overall inequality remain limited, indicating the need for coordination with broader structural public policies.