Partial Views of Poverty and Recent Social Policies in Brazil

Authors

  • Márcia Grisotti UFSC - Florianópolis - SC
  • Carmen Rosario Ortiz G. Gelinski UFSC - Florianópolis - SC

Abstract

Brazilian social policy has recently conquered international prominence because of its anti-poverty programs, particularly. the Family Grant Program. This article seeks to review the limited concepts of poverty on which these programs are based and emphasizes that they have not significantly altered the standards of social protection in Brazilian society.

Author Biographies

Márcia Grisotti, UFSC - Florianópolis - SC

Doutorado em Sociologia pela Universidade de São
Paulo. Professora adjunta no Departamento de Sociologia e Ciência Política da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC).

Carmen Rosario Ortiz G. Gelinski, UFSC - Florianópolis - SC

Doutoranda em Sociologia Política na Universidade
Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC).
Orientadora: Profa. Dra. Márcia Grisotti
Professora adjunta no Departamento de Ciências
Econômicas da Universidade Federal de Santa
Catarina (UFSC).

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Published

2010-01-01

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 2 (2010): Serviço Social e pobreza

Section

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