Monday, April 11, 2011

project adventure.

I am talking with professor, and going to visit some schools. I am researching. I am waiting for this research to be excelent.
This is the begining. for those who do not know what my project is heres  some part of it.

The main goal of my project is to do an ethnography of economic development in Brazil. One of the perennial goals of Brazil since independence has been the quest for economic development and equality. The administrations of Presidents Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1995-2002) and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (2003-2010) have invested more than any other previous president in social programs. Poverty alleviation, health care and education have been top priorities for both presidents, and presumably will be for the administration of the incoming president Dilma Roussef. To address chronic poverty, the government created a couple of programs called "Bolsa Família"(Family Packet) and "Fome Zero" (Zero Hunger). Both programs consist on small cash transfers to low income families who keep their children at school and take them to the doctor on a regular basis for health checks. In addition, the government has increased the number of scholarships exponentially and has doubled the number of students attending university only in the 2000s. The rationale behind these policies is that a healthy and well educated labor force will be more productive and will contribute to economic development.

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