INDICADORES DE POBREZA NAS POLfTICAS SOCIAIS BRASILEIRAS

Abstract

The text's main objeclive is lo show how lhe use (and abuse) 01 social índícators in lhe tormuíatíon 01 social policies, particularly those related to poverty, has been strategic to the reorganization of Brazilian's social protection pattern, by affirming the guarantee of the minimum as official government policy and enhancing a new consensus around the meaning of universality. To build on this cognitive and normative consensus, the centralization in individual aspects and local references start to reign as organizational principies of actions to the expansion of non-contributive schemes' coverture.

Keywords

• social lndicatcrs
• social poücy
• poverty
• universalily