Destroying old myths while building development : lessons from the Sisal Region
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Magalhães, Marília Castelo
Advisor(s)
Judith Tendler.
Date Issued
2008
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
In 1996, the Brazilian Government implemented the Child Labor Eradication Program - PETI, a conditional cash transfer program aimed at reducing child labor by paying a stipend to families who send their working children to an extended day program. After 12 years, PETI has had its most successful implementation in a poor semi-arid region of Brazil, the Sisal Region. The existence of an associational structure in which the federal, state and local government joined efforts with local civil society institutions, mainly a NGO and local rural labor unions, enabled each institution to contribute to the project in the best way possible. As a result the Sisal Region considerably reduced child labor, provided high quality extended day programs and assisted the families involved in PETI with projects aimed at their economic independence.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2008.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 64-67).
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Urban Studies and Planning.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Urban Studies and Planning
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