Five strategic lessons from Brazil
[Not in football and Olympics, but in paying subsidies]
Brazil has a style in football, but it has also become a style in poverty alleviation and targeted subsidies. The Brazilian model of poverty alleviation is in the form of conditional cash subsidies and is called Bolsa Familia. The features of “Bulsa Familia”, which started in 2003, are:
In the framework of this program, at the beginning of each year, an income figure is officially announced as the “poverty line”. [The number of the poverty line is announced in such a way that approximately 25% of the country’s population with the lowest incomes are eligible to receive cash subsidies.] All households who declare themselves that their income is lower than the official figure of the “poverty line” can receive cash subsidies.
The payment of cash subsidy every month to every household is “conditional” on the fact that all the children in the household between the ages of 5 and 18 go to school regularly and regularly participate in medical check-up programs.
The names of all households receiving cash subsidies, along with the amount received and the duration of receiving cash subsidies, will be announced on an official website with the possibility of searching: every month, the percentage of households receiving cash subsidies, in terms of monthly income and the regularity of children’s attendance at school and Medical check-ups are carefully checked and if the family’s violation is proven, heavy fines will be considered for the family.
The total cash subsidy of each eligible household is paid to the “mother of the household”. One of the indirect functions of this subsidy is to improve the status of women and reduce gender discrimination in the most deprived households in Brazil. Along with the development of the conditional cash subsidy program, which now covers about 25% of the poorest Brazilian households, other Brazilian poverty alleviation programs have been halted (or severely limited). Households receiving conditional cash subsidies cannot be covered by other Brazilian poverty alleviation programs.
Considerable:
Always, when it comes to emulating the large welfare plans of European countries, some give the excuse that those countries are advanced and small and sparsely populated, but can we ignore the experience of Brazil with this excuse? We can take five key lessons from the Bezerilis:
1. The subsidy should be conditional from the beginning with a clear and simple condition, not that everyone registers first and then withdraws with difficulty.
2. The subsidy should be transparent. If the names of subsidy receiving families were published in Iran, many would voluntarily withdraw from the subsidy.
3. Instead of implementing dozens of welfare and poverty alleviation programs, some of them will come from ten places (relief committee, equity of justice, welfare) and some from nowhere. Run a program and run the same program well.
4. be serious If someone was not included in this support but deceived the government, there would be serious consequences, not that hundreds of thousands of people would be removed from the list of subsidy recipients, but there would be no consequences for them.
5. Subsidies in the country should have a development orientation, that is, they should be a stimulus and change the infrastructure and social relations. In Brazil, three focal points are targeted: children’s education, family members’ health and women’s position. What has these subsidies changed in Iran? Isn’t it time to think bravely about one of the country’s biggest financial flows (monthly subsidy payment)?
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This post is written by N0mber1