The efficiency of Bolsa Familia Program to advance toward the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): A human development indicator to Brazil

Jessica Suárez Campoli, Paulo Nocera Alves Júnior, Fabrícia Gladys Fernandes da Silva Rossato and Daisy Aparecida do Nascimento Rebelatto

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 2020, vol. 71, issue C

Abstract: •Using DEA to evaluate efficiency of Bolsa Familia Program toward realization of MDGs.•Efficiency of public policy can provide indicator for governmental decision-making.•Social efficiency indicates conversion of economic growth into human development.•Only 3 states (DF, SC and RS) were efficient and occupied the first positions of HDI.•BF alone is not enough to change the reality of poverty and inequalities in Brazil.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2019.100748

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