SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT POLICIES AND POVERTY EVOLUTION, IN THE YEARS 2000: Empirical Evidences and Analysis in Different Perspectives

This study aims to show how the policy and social development programs, instituted in the last decade in the country, were important for reducing poverty and income inequality and produce combined effects of other contextual factors, such as economic recovery and the enhancement of the Minimum Wage. There is an underlying assumption to this work: the decrease of the poverty and the improvement of social indicators in the 2000s, especially in areas historically most vulnerable could be the result of the combined effects of social structuring and universalist policies in education, health, social security and social development.
The focus of this study are the social policies of the last decade. However, it is important to highlight that, since its focus on poverty and social inequality reduction, was made a segmented cut according to the axes of the current policy of Social Development and guided in the structure of the system of Social Protection and Promotion, with an emphasis on Social Assistance, Food Security and Productive Inclusion.