Thursday, January 6, 2011

Dilma Rousseff launches program to combat poverty in Brazil

The Brazilian president, Dilma Rousseff, did not want to waste time and before the eighth day of his inauguration has convened ten ministers and launched what he called the "PAC against poverty", their first against a particular program painful reality that despite the great successes achieved by his predecessor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, even "embarrass the country" as she said Friday in his speech referring to the 22 million citizens live in "extreme poverty".

Following the pattern of the Growth Acceleration Program (PAC) a set of coordinated infrastructure billionaire by her during the Lula government as a minister of the Civil House, Rousseff has launched today the new PAC, addressed exclusively to carry out its first major commitment when he said: "The most stubborn fight my Government will remove extreme poverty and creating opportunities for all." She said "poverty is the most tragic of backwardness." The president who promised to make Brazil a country "middle class", no longer poor, has created a steering committee made up of eight departments: Social Development, Planning, Economy, Casa Civil, Education, Health, Labor and Agrarian Development.

The coordinator will also this time a woman: Ana Fonseca, who had been responsible for the Bolsa Familia program, created by former President Fernando Cardoso and expanded wealth by Lula to 12 million families, which enabled him, along with job creation and popular credit opening introduction to 20 million poor people in the middle class.

The new PAC against poverty, as Tereza Campelo, new Minister of Social Development, will act on three fronts: production including the creation of new jobs, expanding the network of social services and continued expansion of the network benefits all kind to the poor. The first stage will be to establish the identity of what it means to live below poverty, misery Dilma flame as studied by a team of experts from the Applied Economics Research Institute (IPEA) to then determine the necessary budget for the new PAC.

Rousseff, a pragmatic policy, has called on the eight ministers who will participate in the management committee of the PAC against poverty, and to submit suggestions in the coming weeks and projects to begin immediately to act against poverty. "I will not rest while there are still Brazilians without food on the table, while there are families lying in the streets, while poor children are abandoned to their fate.

Is this the dream that I will pursue, "he said, excitedly, in his speech the day he took office in Brasilia.
Posted by Manlio Gandolfi at 9:15 PM

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