Making Brazil Work

Melo, Marcus André; Pereira, Carlos

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“…In many ways the programme's implementation is better than, and avoids many of the distortions of, the wider political system described by Melo and Pereira. 62 Perhaps not surprisingly the biggest controversies surround the impacts of the programme.…”

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Bolsa Famíliaand democracy in Brazil

Pereira

2015

Third World Quarterly

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The conditional cash transfer (CCT) programme Bolsa Família (Family Allowance), introduced in Brazil in 2003, is one of the largest such programmes in the world. Bolsa Família has played a role in the recent reduction of poverty and income inequality in Brazil. But what has been its impact on democracy? An assumption in the literature on social policy, derived from the European experience, is that targeted programmes such as Bolsa Família divide citizens, erode trust between citizens and between citizens and the state, and weaken democracy. This article challenges that assumption, showing that there is considerable evidence that Bolsa Família has strengthened the citizenship rights of the poor and enhanced democracy. The Brazilian experience suggests that, in highly unequal developing countries under conditions of 21st-century capitalism, the argument that targeted social programmes will inevitably undermine democracy is incorrect. Keywords: Brazil; democracy; citizenship; poverty; inequality; social policy; CCTs IntroductionThe Programa Bolsa Família (PBF) is one of the largest conditional cash transfer programmes in the world. The result of a fusion and expansion of existing programmes and begun in 2003 in the first year of the presidency of Luíz Inácio 'Lula' da Silva (2003-10), PBF now includes 13.8 million families comprising 49.6 million people, or 26% of Brazil's population. The programme reaches beneficiaries in 99.7% of the 5570 counties (municípios) of Brazil.

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Bolsa Famíliaand democracy in Brazil

Pereira

2015

Third World Quarterly

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“…However, the quality of the audit is related to external factors, which audit organizations have no in uence -such as political competition, alternation of power, and existence of well-de ned legal mandate (Dye & Stapenhurst,1998;Melo & Pereira, 2013) -as well as internal factors, which they have potential control or interference. Among the internal factors are the independence of auditors, the best application of the available budget to their activities and the quali ed sta (Dye & Stapenhurst, 1998;Portal, 2011).…”

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“…Studies on regional government audit organizations are rare (Melo & Pereira, 2013). Also, there is lack of discussion on the diff erences of these organizations-one exception is Wehner (2003).…”

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“…Also, there is lack of discussion on the diff erences of these organizations-one exception is Wehner (2003). The previous studies seek to identify how external factors over which audit organizations do not have infl uence ( such as political factors or size of the budget) would aff ect the performance of their activities in regional and local governments (Melo & Pereira, 2013). However, they ignore internal factors to these organizations under which there is discretion and autonomy, such as the execution of audit processes or the use of data reporting systems to collect data from audited entities.…”

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The diversity of the Brazilian regional Audit Courts on government auditing

Lino

Aquino

2017

Rev. contab. finanç.

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Currently, the 33 regional audit courts are responsible to monitor the public nancial management cycle for states and municipalities and to judge the compliance of governors' acts to the laws regarding procurement and civil servants' employment from more than 20,000 governmental entities under their jurisdiction. is article aims to analyze the diversity of internal con guration of these regional audit courts and to discuss the potential associations with the nancial auditing quality their teams usually run. We conducted interviews with external auditors and IT directors from 18 courts, followed by triangulation to o cial documents from the audit courts, such as audit manuals and activities reports. e audit quality drivers were identi ed within the governmental auditing literature, supporting the evidences collected by the interviews content analysis. Despite all regional auditing bodies in Brazil were based on the Napoleonic model, the analysis indicates the identi ed con gurations vary according to the team's organization and size, auditor rotation and use of data reporting systems. e discussion shows that dissimilarities on the courts' con gurations, as they are responsible to audit a speci c country area, will contribute to a di erent coercion level on scal and accounting issues to state and municipalities, due a combination of characteristics which could mitigate or improve the audit quality. is paper additionally suggests some precautions, based on the organization alignment literature, for the use of proxies to control audit quality e ects in the public nance studies in Brazil.

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“…The expansion of graduate studies in Brazil over the last decades is a reality described by several authors (RAMOS; VELHO, 2011;MELO;LASTRES;MARQUES, 2004;CGEE, 2010). Among the major documents describing such growth are the National Graduate Plans (PNPG, in its original acronym).…”

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Expansão da temática relações raciais no banco de dados de teses e dissertações da Capes

Artes

Mena‐Chalco

2017

Educ. Pesqui.

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Over the last decades, there is an expansion of the access to graduate studies in Brazil. Characterizing those who attend and complete this stage of schooling has been the object of a varied set of research projects and publications. Studies on racial relations in this field can be analyzed, among several possibilities, by looking at the authorship of papers by Black students or as the topic being addressed in the theses and dissertations that have be written. In this paper, we analyze the evolution of the studies on racial relations taking as our data source the M.A. and PhD works submitted to Brazilian institutions with a record in the Capes theses and dissertations database. By defining 191 descriptors, we have characterized information from the records of dissertations and theses in a span of 25 years . In whole, 4,204 works were found about this topic, submitted to 800 graduate programs from 161 universities or research institutes. There is clear evidence that the growth in the amount of dissertations and theses dealing with racial relations is higher if compared to the average of works submitted in the same period, which shows an increasing interest on this theme that may be associated with the expansion of access of Black people to higher education and, even more restrictedly, to the graduate studies programs. Another key aspect we explored in this paper is the fact that there are more women than men in the productions identified in the theme of racial relations in Brazil.

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Making Brazil Work

Cited by 37 publications

References 58 publications

Bolsa Famíliaand democracy in Brazil

Bolsa Famíliaand democracy in Brazil

The diversity of the Brazilian regional Audit Courts on government auditing

Expansão da temática relações raciais no banco de dados de teses e dissertações da Capes

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