Municipal and federal governments in Brazil have created a series of minimum income guarantee programmes that aim to tackle intergenerational poverty, on a large scale and uuithin a rights frameuuork, These programmes represent a silent revolution inthe form and size of government anti-poverty intervention. In little more than a decade, income guarantee programmes have become the country's principal anti-poverty strategy, duiarfing the patchujork of charitable or non-profit organisations that have,uuith public funding, historically sought to meet the needs of the poor In the city of Sao Paulo, the Minimum Family-Income Guarantee Programme, henceforth Renda Minima, provides monthly income grants to almost 150,000 families living in extreme poverty, or around 600,000 people.1 Building on such municipal initiatives, the federal government's Bolsa Familia (Family Grant) offers similar grants to an unprecedented 11, 2 million families, an estimated third of the country's population.
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