João Ricardo Ferreira de Lima

PERFIL SOCIOECONÔMICO DOS BENEFICIÁRIOS RURAIS DO PROGRAMA BOLSA FAMÍLIA NA REGIÃO SUL DO BRASIL

The Bolsa Familia Conditional Cash Transfer Program (PBF) has been the subject of studies and inspired anti-poverty programs, within and outside Brazil. Nevertheless, in rural areas, where there is the most part of the poor and extremely poor population and there are many PBF’s beneficiaries, there are few studies to understand its impact and its contribution to rural development. This article presents and analyzes the profile of rural PBF’s beneficiaries in southern Brazil in 2014. Using official data from the Cadastro Unico para Programas Sociais (CadUnico) of the Ministerio do Desenvolvimento Social e Combate a Fome (MDS) the article indicates that there is similarity between the studied states and low availability of resources that the PBF’s beneficiaries may convert into work and income, maintaining them with a high level of poverty. Thus, the income transfer policy alone has been insufficient to overcome poverty, which requires that their implementation be associated with other activities and programs guided by the rural territorial development perspective.

Produtividade Agrícola nos Países da América Latina

This article studies the total factor productivity (TFP) in agriculture from 19 countries in Latin America in the period from 1961 to 2010. In the analysis of the countries’ economic performance, the parametric approach to stochastic frontier production is used. It is observed that all countries had positive TFP change in the period from 1961 to 2010, which showed product growth as well as positive technical progress. The greatest TFP variation in Brazil is 55.73%, while the smallest change is in Trinidad and Tobago, 42.06%. However, the change in technical efficiency showed to be decreasing to nearly 50% of all countries. In the case of scale efficiency, only Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay had positive average for the period. Regarding the change in allocative efficiency, all countries showed to be decreasing.