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1 online resource (viii, 334 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Intro; Cash Transfers in Context; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Introduction. Cash Transfers and the Revenge of Contexts; Chapter 1. Miracle Mechanisms, Traveling Models, and the Revenge of Contexts; Chapter 2. Realizing Cash Transfer Programs through Collective Obligations; Chapter 3. Types of Permanence; Chapter 4. Queuing in the Sun; Chapter 5. Conditional Cash Transfer Program Implementation and Effects in Peruvian Indigenous Contex; Chapter 6. Making Good Mothers; Chapter 7. Expectations beyond Development |
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Chapter 8. Conditional Cash Transfer and Gender, Class, and Ethnic Domination Chapter 9. Behind the Official Story; Chapter 10. Are Cash Transfers Rocking or Wrecking the World of Social Workers in Egypt?; Chapter 11. Juggling between Social Obligations and Personal Benefit in Western Côte d'Ivoire; Chapter 12. Cash Transfers in Rural Niger; Index |
| Summary |
Marginal in status a decade ago, cash transfer programs have become the preferred channel for delivering emergency aid or tackling poverty in low-and middle-income countries. While these programs have had positive effects, they are typical of top-down development interventions in that they impose imported and standardized norms and procedures regarding conditionality, targeting, and delivery on local contexts. This book sheds light on the crucial importance of these contexts and the many unpredicted consequences of cash transfer programs worldwide - detailing how the latter are used by actors to pursue their own strategies, and how external norms are reinterpreted, circumvented, and contested by local populations. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Income maintenance programs -- Developing countries.
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Poverty -- Developing countries.
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Poor -- Developing countries.
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Economic development -- Social aspects -- Developing countries.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Finance. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural |
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Economic development -- Social aspects |
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Income maintenance programs |
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Poor |
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Poverty |
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Developing countries |
| Added Author |
Olivier de Sardan, Jean-Pierre, editor.
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Piccoli, Emmanuelle, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cash transfers in context. New York : Berghahn Books, 2018 9781785339578 (DLC) 2018008390 |
| ISBN |
9781785339585 (electronic book) |
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1785339583 (electronic book) |
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9781785339578 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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1785339575 |
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9781785339578 |
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