Brazil’s CCT, Bolsa Familia is the largest programme of its kind in the world. Bolsa Familia 13 million households, with about 5 people in each household. This figure is astounding, as it reaches 25% of the entire population of Brazil. Since the implementation of Bolsa Familia, the programme has near unanimously been praised for its growing success. Bolsa Familia has worked to bring an overall reduction in income inequality, as well as leading to an exponential increase in school enrolments and health checks in the areas where CCT’s are concentrated. This has all contributed to the president for the Centre of Global Development, Nancy Birdsall to claim that CCT programmes are ‘as close as you can get to a magic bullet for development’ ().
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Human capital accumulation is considered a central driver of growth in the process of social and economic development. CCT’s are an initiative have the ability to provide a direct route to human capital accumulation. This is due to their distinct focus on the pillars of human capital accumulation: education, health and wellbeing. Economists, scholars and policy makers alike have continuously evaluated the impact of Bolsa Familia as a means of assuring the necessary foundations for human capital development are being met. Now in its eleventh year of implementation, there have been many analysis of the perceived outcomes of CCT programmes. This has largely taken place in the context of its policy parameters and the considerations of their real effect of human capital accumulation. While we must acknowledge that CCT’s effects on human development indicators at current are positive, a critical interpretation of the rationale which governs CCT’s, as well as the outcomes and externalities produced by CCT programmes are a fundamental component to their overall …show more content…
Therefore, in order to reduce the high incidence of child labour in Brazil the government introduced a programme it.This led to the creation of an after school programme: Program de Erradicacao do Trabalho Infantil (hereby referred to as PETI). PETI is focused largely in rural Brazil where there is the highest incidence of child labour in the country making up what percent (). The government has a particularly strong interest in reducing the level of child labour – as it is ‘interpreted as labour that involves health risks’ ().This is due to the dangerous nature of working on sugar plantations. (So and so looks at the sugar plantation region in
Human capital accumulation is considered a central driver of growth in the process of social and economic development. CCT’s are an initiative have the ability to provide a direct route to human capital accumulation. This is due to their distinct focus on the pillars of human capital accumulation: education, health and wellbeing. Economists, scholars and policy makers alike have continuously evaluated the impact of Bolsa Familia as a means of assuring the necessary foundations for human capital development are being met. Now in its eleventh year of implementation, there have been many analysis of the perceived outcomes of CCT programmes. This has largely taken place in the context of its policy parameters and the considerations of their real effect of human capital accumulation. While we must acknowledge that CCT’s effects on human development indicators at current are positive, a critical interpretation of the rationale which governs CCT’s, as well as the outcomes and externalities produced by CCT programmes are a fundamental component to their overall …show more content…
Therefore, in order to reduce the high incidence of child labour in Brazil the government introduced a programme it.This led to the creation of an after school programme: Program de Erradicacao do Trabalho Infantil (hereby referred to as PETI). PETI is focused largely in rural Brazil where there is the highest incidence of child labour in the country making up what percent (). The government has a particularly strong interest in reducing the level of child labour – as it is ‘interpreted as labour that involves health risks’ ().This is due to the dangerous nature of working on sugar plantations. (So and so looks at the sugar plantation region in