Il professore Alessandro Pinzani (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina) illustra i temi della sua ricerca sul programma pubblico di riduzione della povertà estrema in Brasile "Bolsa Familia"
Il professore Alessandro Pinzani (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina) illustra i temi della sua ricerca sul programma pubblico di riduzione della povertà estrema in Brasile "Bolsa Familia", trattati mercoledì 3 febbraio 2016 nel corso del seminario dal titolo "Poverty Alleviation in Brazil: A Success Story".
Alessandro Pinzani è infatti coautore, con la sociologa Walquíria Domingues Leão Rêgo, della ricerca "Freedom Money and Autonomy: the case of Bolsa Familia".
Il seminario fa parte del ciclo Colloquium on Philosophy and Global Affairs del dipartimento di Scienze politiche e sociali dell'Università di Catania (organizzato dal prof. Luigi Caranti) e rientra tra le attività culturali del corso di laurea in Global Politics and Euro-Mediterranean Relations (Glopem).
Alessandro Pinzani (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina) recently published a research (co-authored with the sociologist Walquíria Domingues Leão Rêgo) on how certain policies introduced by the Lula administration, and then confirmed by Dilma Rousseff, have had a significant impact on the reduction of extreme poverty in Brazil. Thanks to programs such as "Bolsa Familia" many Brazilian mothers have had the basic needs of their family met in such a way that they could abandon a life devoted, like that of animals, to find food for their kids on a day by day basis.
Very interesting is how these programs seem to show no unwelcome side effects of promoting 'laziness' in the recipients. Quite to the contrary, meeting basic needs on a largely unconditioned way has proven to be a powerful instrument of empowerment and social inclusion for the very poor in Brazil.
Pinzani presents to philosophers and to political scientists and sociologists his findings arising from a theoretical and empirical research that lasted years.