Ways to overcome poverty in Brazil: Basic Income and the Bolsa Família Program

Abstract

The structural condition of Brazilian society is marked by inequality, a scenario
that is worsened by the persistence and deepening of informal work, instability in family income
in the initial groups of the income pyramid and worrying rates of poverty and extreme proposals for basic income and programs such as Bolsa Família and Auxílio Brasil are debated.
This study is the result of documentary and bibliographical research, carried out in 2024,
intending to reflect on income transfer in Brazil, in its theoretical aspects and implementation
paths for programs of this nature. The research findings are organized into two central
axes: debates and experiences of basic income programs in Brazil; and, Conditional income
transfer programs, the Bolsa Família Program and the Auxílio Brasil Program. The results allow
us to state that the PBF, despite its relevance in reducing poverty, prevented the basic income
proposal from being adopted as a federal policy and, therefore, valid for the entire
country. Furthermore, the research also shows that, when the PBF acts in the income sphere,
it does not change the structural determinants that generate poverty and the extreme income
inequality that exists in Brazil.

JEL Classification: I00; I3; I38.
poverty. It is from the perspective of trying to overcome poverty and extreme poverty that