Social policies and poverty in Brazil: challenges towards human development

Abstract

The academic literature on the phenomenon of poverty is plural, being that contemporary conceptions point to the importance of multidimensional approaches to poverty, as well as its coping policies. The present study aims to develop an analysis of the construction of the concept of poverty, as well as to evaluate the conditions of Brazilian social policies in promoting human development and overcoming social inequalities. For this purpose, bibliographical and documentary research was carried out, the collection and analysis of secondary data on social development in actualBrazil. Since the implementation of the PBF, it has been possible to see significant advances in terms of reducing the number of people living in extreme poverty inBrazil. In spite of the social achievements, many are the challenges to be overcome, among these, it is mentioned the fall in the index of human development of the country. Thus, it is argued that social policies can be interesting tools for controlling the deprivation of the population.