New policies against poverty: conditional cash transfer programs in São Paulo, Brazil (original) (raw)

This work aims at examining changes in State performance against poverty and inequality in Brazil through the study of recent experiments in social policy, i.e. the conditional cash transfer programs, focusing on those ones that have been developed in São Paulo. From survey data carried out by the Center for Metropolitan Studies (CEM-CEBRAP) in the city of São Paulo in 2008, this paper analyzes the main determinants of poor people's access to conditional cash transfer programs. In that sense, this work intends to contribute to the understanding of the role of State in the mitigation or in the reproduction of poverty and inequality.