O estado e o dever de erradicação da pobreza

Abstract

The present research seeks to analyze the feasibility and legal consequences of the state's duty to eradicate poverty as a fundamental constitutional objective. We sought to use the inductive method, applied to empirical data gathered here as a set of relevant facts on which the fundamental objective of eradicating poverty turns. The tool that instrumentalizes such analysis is the Public Choice Theory, whose language is used here in the search for the conversion of competition movements, underlying budget disputes, into win-win cooperation. Therefore, the time frame seeks to focus on the models of income transfer policies applied in Brazil, especially since the 1988 Redemocratization, going up to the Bolsa Família Program, in view of the availability of data from such a time frame. In the end, it appears that income transfer measures have played a decisive role in reducing poverty as a direct effect, but still allowing indirect effects relevant to its Social Cost, which add up and make up a tool of relevant value for social transformation.