This book analyzes the impacts on peoples' lives of the largest antipoverty social program in the world: the Brazilian Bolsa Fam lia Program. Created by the government of former Brazilian president Luiz In cio Lula da Silva, Bolsa Fam lia has been for a time the largest conditional cash transfer program in the world, serving more than 50 million Brazilians who had a monthly per capita income of less than USD 50. The program...