Discursos sobre os efeitos das políticas públicas de transferência de renda sobre dinâmicas socioeconômicas no Brasil: o caso do programa bolsa família, em Catolé do Rocha - PB

Abstract

The objective of this research is to analyze how in Brazil visions have been constructed regarding the impacts of the Bolsa Família Program on socioeconomic dynamics, based on the study of specialized and non-specialized literature and semi-structured interviews with an intentional sample of residents in the region of Catolé do Rocha / PB, stratified by their positions in the social space in question. Among the main conclusions of the study, we highlight the following (1) in the groups of individuals considered, the perception of the effects of PBF and rural retirement on economic activities was predominant; (2) among the non-beneficiaries we find the replication of the idea of the idleness effect of the PBF, present in the literature on the program broadcast in much of the media; (3) among beneficiaries and ex-beneficiaries, the perception of the importance of the PBF in solving the problem of hunger was highlighted; (4) among the beneficiaries and ex-beneficiaries, the idle effect attributed to the PBF was questioned and explained as non-existent; (5) in this last group also was emphasized as an important effect of the PBF the meaning of conditionality of the compulsory attendance of children to school.