Cash transfers in context : an anthropological perspective /

Cash transfers in context : an anthropological perspective /

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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 im...

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Other Authors / Creators:Olivier de Sardan, Jean-Pierre, editor.
Piccoli, Emmanuelle, editor.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: New York : Berghahn Books, 2018.
Subjects:
Income maintenance programs > Developing countries.
Poverty > Developing countries.
Poor > Developing countries.
Economic development > Social aspects > Developing countries.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Finance.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Economic development > Social aspects
Income maintenance programs
Poor
Poverty
Developing countries
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Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • 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

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