What is Fome Zero?
'''Fome Zero''' ({{IPA-pt|ˈfɔmi ˈzɛɾu}}, ''Zero Hunger'') is a program of the [[Federal government of Brazil|Government of Brazil]] created by President [[Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva]] in 2003, with the goal to end [[hunger]] and [[extreme poverty]] in [[Brazil]]. The program had many forms, from direct financial aid to the poorest families (with the ''[[Bolsa Família]]'' card) to creating water [[cisterns]] in Brazil's [[Sertão|semi-arid]] areas to support [[family farm]]ing and giving access to [[microcredit]]. An economic evaluation of Bolsa Escola did find significant effects on both school attendance rates and the number of children involved in [[child labor]].<ref>[https://ssrn.com/abstract=358407 SSRN-Ex-ante Evaluation of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs: The Case of Bolsa Escola by Francois Bourguignon, Francisco Ferreira, Phillippe Leite<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref name=WBANKRESULTS>{{Cite web |url=http://go.worldbank.org/L7RZYL07J0 |title=RAWLINGS, Laura B. e RUBIO, Gloria M. ''Evaluating the Impact of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs - Lessons from Latin America, Volume 1, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 3119, August 2003'', The World Bank, 2003. |access-date=2010-10-16 |archive-date=2010-10-16 |archive-url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20101016133501/http://go.worldbank.org/L7RZYL07J0 |url-status=dead }}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{stub}} [[Category:Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva]]