Do Bolsa Família para o Auxílio Brasil: uma discussão sob a ótica das condicionalidades

Abstract

The present study aimed to adress the transition from the Program Bolsa Família to the Auxílio Brasil, focusing on the transformations in conditionalities associated to the conditional transfer programs. It was decreed the suspension of the application of the effects resulting from the breach of conditionalities from Bolsa Família for a period of 180 days. In this sense, the goal is to deepen the debate about the importance of conditionalities, their monitoring, and the possible consequences of its discontinuation, given the conditional transfer programs ́main purpose: to break with the Intergenerational Cycle of Poverty. To do so, several studies covering the conditionalities ́impact were reviewed, as well as their monitoring. Has been used a theoretical, descriptive and comparative method in order to evaluate the possible impact of the transition between programs from a perspective of the conditionalities and their transformation occurred during this process. Furthermore, studies and qualitative evaluations are presented as mechanisms for interrupting the Intergenerational Cycle of Poverty. Bringing to light the discussion on the definition of poverty, in a socieconomic scenario ravaged by the Covid pandemic, it is questioned whether the conditionalities ́ suspension can lead to the worsening of the inequalities scenery due to an absence of long-term policies. And, ultimately, it ́s stated the importance of further studies, in order to assess the accomplishment, or not, of such results through the disruptions occurred.