Public choice for eradicating extreme poverty in Brazil

Abstract

The constitutional legislator in Article 3, III, defined as one of the objectives of the Federative Republic of Brazil to eradicate poverty, marginalization and the reduction of social inequalities. However, implementation of constitutional goals requires commitment from elected representatives in their government action, and thus depends on the political will for the implementation of public policies. The objective of this article is to present the ideological vectors that influenced the public choices and public policies to fight extreme poverty in Brazil. Thus, it was used the deductive method, through legislative, bibliographic and documentary analysis. The analysis demonstrates the ideological common points of public policies for poverty alleviation, especially through assistance grants. However it is needed to encourage political participation empowering and developing latent abilities on those subject to extreme poverty. The originality of this work is on raising the ideological content of plans of governments of the last presidential election, representing the policy intent and guide the implementation of the objectives of Republic.