| GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW) | | Portuguese term or phrase: | Bolsa Família | | English translation: | Family Stipend | | Entered by: |   Amy Duncan |
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Bus/Financial - Insurance / DPVAT | | Portuguese term or phrase: Bolsa Família | Afirmar que o seguro acoplado ao **Bolsa Família** irá ampliar a Cultura do Seguro, que a anos consome uma tremenda grana do DPVAT, ninguém ainda se interessou, mais ou menos por conhecer o que é o Seguro ou para ele se destina.
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| | Family Stipend | Explanation:
It's a fixed monthly payment from the government to underpriveleged families, as you know.
'Family payment' doesn't really capture the meaning.
HIH.
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Note added at 23 hrs (2007-02-02 15:39:40 GMT) Post-grading
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Thanks Amy for choosing my translation. |
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Richard Jenkins
Brazil
Local time: 09:51
| Grading comment Thanks Richard, and Todd too, for your suggestion.
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6 mins confidence:   peer agreement (net): +4 | Bolsa Família Program
Explanation:
This is a Brazilian welfare program that is commonly known as "Bolsa Família" in English.
Here is a definition from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolsa_Família:
"Bolsa Família, roughly translated as "Family Stipend" or "Family Scholarship" in English, is a part of Fome Zero a Brazilian governmental welfare program. Bolsa Família provides a financial aid to poor and indigent Brazilian families with conditions, the children must attend school and be vaccineted. The program attempts to both reduce short-term poverty by direct cash transfers and fight long-term poverty by increasing human capital among the poor through conditional cash transfers. It is now a centerpiece of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's social policy, and is reputed to have played a role in his victory in the 2006 national elections."
Good luck!
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Note added at 8 mins (2007-02-01 16:07:19 GMT)
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And another description from http://web.worldbank.org:
The Bolsa Família Program (BFP) was launched in October 2003 as President Lula’s flagship social program in support of his "Zero Hunger" initiative. Like other "conditional cash transfers" (CCTs), the BFP seeks to help:
- reduce current poverty and inequality, by providing cash transfers to extremely poor families; and
- break the inter-generational transmission of poverty by conditioning these transfers on beneficiary compliance with requirements such as school attendance, vaccines, and pre-natal visits.
| Todd Field
United States
Local time: 05:51
Native speaker of:  English
PRO pts in category: 12
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