the paper Projeto Mutirão, Programas Favela-Bairro e Morar Carioca: três décadas de urbanização de favelas na Cidade do Rio de Janeiro (Projeto Mutirão, Programas Favela-Bairro, and Morar Carioca: thre decades of urbanizatio in rio de janeiro's favelas) by Gerônimo Leitão, Silvia Barboza, and Jonas Delecave  analyzes the changes in the State/Favela relations between 1979 and 2014, and its consequences for projects and public policies of developing favelas.

three different programs are analyzed in their  political, economic and social contexts. the Projeto Mutirão, which was established between 1981 and 1989, the Favela- Bairro program, developed between 1992 and 2009 and Finally the Morar Carioca program, which was launched in 2010.