A centralidade dos Programas de Transferência de Renda na Agenda Social do MERCOSUL

Abstract

The Mercosur began in 1991, as a strategic political in order to increase the trade among countries of the region, however, since 2000 advances in the establishment of a social agenda were evidenced. In the last decade, institutional mechanisms were created to the social agenda accomplishment in the Mercosur. The social agenda in Mercosur comprehends a group of measure directed towards the country development of trading bloc, with the decreasing priority of the poverty level. Among the measures adopted by region government, income transference programs were evidenced as a way to decrease the poverty. The research aims to analyse the characteristics of the income transference programs in countries of trading bloc, its way of operationalization and coverage, its inclusion or not inside the social security field. The general aim is evaluating the centrality of income transference programs on social agenda of Mercosur and its articulation with the measures adopted by the Brazilian Government. The perspective adopted in order to analyse the study object is given by the critical theory, incorporating Marxist categories for discussion about capitalism, globalization and poverty. The methodology comes through the bibliographical research, documental study and data collection through interviews with technicians from Mercosur Social Institute.