Abstract

FREIRE, Viviam Rafaela Barbosa Pinheiro; SILVA, Simone Souza da Costa; CAVALCANTE, Lilia Iêda Chaves  and  PONTES, Fernando Augusto Ramos. The Bolsa Família Program as a strategy to combat poverty in dissertations and theses in Brazil. Estud. pesqui. psicol. [online]. 2013, vol.13, n.3, pp.990-1009. ISSN 1808-4281.

This research aimed to review dissertations and theses about Bolsa Família Program (BFP) available at Capes theses database. The search and selection resulted in 166 studies between the years 2004-2009. The abstracts were analyzed and categorized into: 1) Publication of dissertations and theses by academic level and year, 2) Field, keywords, and method of dissertations and theses, 3) Focus research in the regions of Brazil, and 4) Thematic content by academic level. It was observed that 75.9% of studies were of academic dissertations, being subject of interest to several fields of knowledge. Most studies (81.3%) used the empirical approach. The Northeast region of Brazil was the most investigated (45.3%). There was predominance (33.6%) of research that did not indicate conclusive positive or negative effects of the BFP. We conclude that there is no consensus in the literature investigated about the consolidation of the BFP as a strategy to combat poverty.

Keywords : Development; BFP; Review.

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