One study showed that the Chilean program that inspired the governor (Republicans) to get families out of poverty and counteract Lula, had partial results.
The research, published in 2018 by the Academic Journal of the University of Oxford, evaluated the impacts of the Chile Solidarity project, which was created in 2002 by the government of socialist Ricardo Lagos and was replaced in 2013.
The program consisted of regular visits of social workers to families of extreme poverty for two years, with short -term income transfer and personalized plans to improve medium term life – similar as those of the Tarcisio project, which (Alesp) next week.
The researchers compared indicators over a decade (2000 to 2009) of similar socioeconomic families, who have or not part of the program, with impacts measured in terms of two, four and six years after the start of visits.
The conclusion was that the project “did not generate significant improvements in the participation in the labor market of family members, nor in their housing conditions”, but achieved one of their central objectives, which was “strengthening the ties between the population in extreme poverty and the social protection system.”
“Personalized counseling helped activate the search for benefits and social services by families who were initially oblivious to the system. Unfortunately, connecting these families to social services was not enough to generate significant improvements in their well-being,” they write.
The Portuguese Pedro Carneiro, one of the three authors of the study and professor of the Department of Economics at University College London (UCL), ponders that the target audience of both programs is different, which may have a great impact on results.
“In the Chilean case the public was very specific: the poorest 2%, completely dysfunctional families, who would not even know what family Bolsa is. The program is much more comprehensive, with many families already registered,” he says.
Carneiro was called to collaborate with overcoming through J-PAL (Action Laboratory against Poverty Abdul Latif Jameel), a network of researchers based at MIT (Institute of Massachusetts Technology), in the US, which is in technical dialogue with the São Paulo government.
According to him, despite the hypothesis of the target audience, the study published in 2018 did not have sufficient data to detail why the program did not result in greater employability and better living conditions of the participants.
State Secretary for Social Development, Andrezza Rosalém, in May the inspiration in the Chilean program, but said it is “proposing a great innovation in aspects such as personalized service and the look and listening to each family.”
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