But Christian Aid has raised questions about the government's effort to overcome poverty in the 2012 report 'The Real Brazil: The Inequality Behind Statistics' it examines: the impact of various anti-poverty measures introduced by the two Lula governments, especially the Bolsa Família grants, the land settlement programme for small farmers, and the earlier rural pension, and finds that they have had little effect on inequality.
ولكن مدونة المعونة المسيحية أثار تساؤلات حول جهود الحكومة للتغلب على الفقر في تقرير 2012 "البرازيل الحقيقي": عدم المساواة وراء الإحصائيات فإنه يقول: