Cash Transfers in Context An Anthropological Perspective

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Synopsis

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 on local contexts standardized norms and procedures regarding conditionality, targeting, and delivery. 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.

Book details

Author:
Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan, Emmanuelle Piccoli
ISBN:
9781785339585
Related ISBNs:
9781785339578, 9781800739178, 9781785339691
Publisher:
Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Pages:
342
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
Yes
Date of addition:
2023-03-29
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2018
Copyright by:
Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan and Emmanuelle Piccoli 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Business and Finance, Nonfiction, Social Studies