Programa bolsa família e o consumo no Ceará: impacto das transferências à luz da teoria dos direitos fundamentais

Abstract

Among its fundamental objectives, the Brazilian State has the eradication of poverty and marginalization and the reduction of social and regional inequalities. It turns out that the characterization of poverty and extreme poverty should not be related only to economic need. It is linked to a bundle of minimum rights that must be guaranteed with respect for the dignity of the human person. The Bolsa Família Program emerges as the main public policy that pursues this objective. However, due to the constant permanence of families as passive subjects of receiving the benefit, associated with the absence of effective exit doors from the program, some research questions emerge. To understand if program objectives are being met, one must capture how beneficiaries understand this income distribution mechanism. If there is no prior understanding by the beneficiaries that the benefit must be transient and emancipatory, then there is a good chance that the program will not be effective as originally proposed. This paper analyzes the Bolsa Família program based on the consumption of the Ceará beneficiaries. To pursue this objective, the theory of fundamental rights is studied, especially the correlation between the guarantee of the essential nucleus, the minimum existential and reserve of the possible. As for the methodology, the research was built from the perspective of Ozanira Silva through an exploratory and descriptive process evaluation. The research used questionnaires and interviews with a semi-structured script provided by the Specialization Course in Education, Poverty and Social Inequality at the Federal University of Ceará, in addition to bibliographic and documentary research, using convenience sampling.