Contribuição do Programa Bolsa Família (PBF) nos indicadores de pobreza monetária na microrregião de Santana do Ipanema

Abstract

In Brazil, the population is at the mercy of a reality where income is poorly distributed, reflecting in large quantity of people living in poverty and extreme poverty, thus having their rights violated, since they do not have access to their basic, which includes food, health, education, clothing, among other rights. However, to narrow existing social differences, it is imperative to create policies that will mitigate the gap between the rich and the poor, providing everyone equal access to their rights. Therefore, the main objective of this study is to analyse the contribution of the PBF to the reduction of the monetary poverty indicators in the microregion of Santana do Ipanema in the year of 2010. For this, the data of the demographic census of that year were used to make a comparison, considering the direct effect of the PBF benefit when calculating indices with and without program remuneration. The main results show a positive impact of PBF on the indicators P0, P1 and P2, thus reducing poverty and extreme poverty in all municipalities analysed. It is worth mentioning that the program was more efficient in reducing extreme poverty. About the proportion of people living in poverty and extreme poverty, there was a reduction for all municipalities. Following the same path, there was a reduction in the income insufficiency ratio and in the poverty severity, with maximum positive variations observed in 14 p.p. for the mean gap and 19 p.p. in the mean square gap.