"By common consent the conditional cash-transfer programme (CCT) has been a stunning success and is wildly popular. It was expanded in 2003, the year Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva became Brazil’s president...the number of Brazilians with incomes below 800 reais ($440) a month has fallen more than 8% every year since 2003" -- The Economist, Brazil's Bolsa Família: How to get children out of jobs and into school; The limits of Brazil’s much admired and emulated anti-poverty programme, 7/29/2010