Health, economic and social impacts of the Brazilian cash transfer program on the lives of its beneficiaries: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Bolsa Família cash transfer Program (BFP) aims to break the poverty cycle by providing a minimum income to poor families conditioned on their investment in human capital (such as, education and health) and currently is the largest Program in the world in terms of the number of beneficiaries. Because there is a scarcity of reviews grouping studies on the impacts of the BFP, the objective of this scoping review was to identify and describe studies which evaluate the impact of the BFP on poverty, health, education, and other related outcomes.

Methods

We searched for quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-method articles that assessed the impact of the BFP on any aspect of the beneficiaries' lives between 2003 and March 2021. We included quantitative articles that u

SUBMITTER: Magalhaes J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11476833 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature