CCTs for Female Heads of Households and Market Citizenship at State-Level in Mexico

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 495-507
Author(s):  
Anahely Medrano
Keyword(s):  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
State Level ◽  
Target Population ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Cash Transfers ◽  
Conditional Cash Transfers ◽  
Welfare Recipients ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Reduction Strategies ◽  
Do So

Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) have become key anti-poverty reduction strategies in Latin America. There are different types of CCTs implemented at the national and subnational level in this region. This paper analyses the design of CCT programmes directed to assist female heads of households at the state level in Mexico. To do so, the study applies an analytical framework to make a comparative study of the key features of the design, looking specifically at the way the target population is constructed as welfare recipients and citizens. The results of this qualitative study suggest that, irrespective of the purposes of these social programmes, the design reflects certain values and normative beliefs related to the notion of market citizenship, which also seem to intersect with certain ideas about motherhood and the poor in Mexico.

The relevance of conditional cash transfers in developing economy: the case of Muslim countries

2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (12) ◽  
pp. 1513-1538 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhamed Zulkhibri
Keyword(s):  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Cash Transfers ◽  
Conditional Cash Transfers ◽  
Qualitative Assessment ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Muslim Countries ◽  
Underlying Principle ◽  
Development Institutions ◽  
Social Cash Transfers

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to critically analyse the relevance of directly targeted poverty reduction programmes in Muslim countries by means of conditional cash transfers (CCTs). The paper analyses the best practices and lessons learnt to date and explores the practical issues to implement CCT poverty reduction programmes in Muslim countries. Design/methodology/approach The methodology is based on the qualitative assessment drawn from CCTs implementation in Muslim countries, namely Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan and Turkey. The methodology also identifies the practical issues including the use of Islamic instruments to implement CCT poverty reduction programmes. Findings The analysis in Muslim countries suggests that CCT programmes have had a positive effect and that the costs are relatively affordable if implemented with appropriate programme designs. In many cases, there have been positive secondary effects over and above the primary goal of poverty reduction. The paper also argues that the concept of CCTs is in line with the underlying principle of Islam to eradicate poverty via cash distribution approach. Originality/value A decade long experience in some Muslim countries demonstrates that social cash transfers (including CCTs) have a significant impact on reducing poverty and vulnerability and promoting human development. Since none of CCT programmes in Muslim countries explore and integrate the potential of Islamic instruments (Zakat, Sadaqat, Awqaf and Qard Al-Hassan), it is timely for governments, multinational development institutions and non-profit organizations to utilize these instruments to tackling poverty.

Migration und Remittances

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Maria Beischroth-Eberl
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
International Development ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Development Discourse ◽  
The Core ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
Remittance Flows ◽  
Do So

Remittances have become a very important keyword within the international development discourse. The core purpose of the paper presented is to highlight the enormous potential of remittance-flows to finance and set in motion development processes. Thus, this paper discusses the main facts concerning remittances, demonstrating their positive impact on sustainable economic and social development and poverty reduction on both micro- and macroeconomic levels. To do so, theory is accompanied by several country case studies and interviews with people concerned, representing different types of remittance – characters. Problems arising in this process such as commitments, dependency or relying on remittances are always kept in mind and also dealt with.

scholarly journals CONDITIONAL CASH TRANSFER SCHEMES AND THE POLITICISATION OF POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGIES SCHEMES AND POLITICISATION OF POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGIES

2015 ◽  
Vol 28 (83) ◽  
pp. 19-31
Author(s):  
Juan Fernando Bucheli
Keyword(s):  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Conditional Cash Transfer ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Conditional Cash Transfers ◽  
Cash Transfer ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Social Investment ◽  
Political Alliances ◽  
Reduction Strategies

Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) in Latin America has been marked by a closed top-down process led by coalitions of politicians and technocrats who have chosen patronage relationships as the most convenient interaction with beneficiaries of social programmes. The existence of this type of relationship forces beneficiaries to take part in long-term political alliances in exchange for economic benefits. What seems to be a symbiotic relationship for the parties ultimately can have negative consequences in terms of democratic values and a financial opportunity cost to implement more efficient social investment. The more the exchange persists, the more permanent welfare dependency will prevail in the region.

Conditional cash transfers: Social work and eradicating poverty in Chile

2016 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 289-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taly Reininger ◽  
Borja Castro-Serrano ◽  
Marcela Flotts ◽  
Mónica Vergara ◽  
Ana Fuentealba
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Cash Transfers ◽  
Conditional Cash Transfers ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S

The following article revises conditional cash transfers (CCTs) in Latin America, followed by an examination of the history of poverty reduction programs in Chile since the 1960s and the installation of CCT programs in the country with a particular focus on the role of social work in their design and implementation. The article concludes with a discussion of the challenges social work faces in actively participating in the redesign and implementation of the new CCT model from a human rights and social justice focus.

Nesting Expectations: What Can the Mexican and Argentinean Cash Transfers Tell Us about the Development of Development?

1969 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 157-169
Author(s):  
Andrés Dapuez
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Cash Transfers ◽  
Conditional Cash Transfers ◽  
Cash Transfer ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Transfer Programs

Latin American cash transfer programs have been implemented aiming at particular anticipatory scenarios. Given that the fulfillment of cash transfer objectives can be calculated neither empirically nor rationally a priori, I analyse these programs in this article using the concept of an “imaginary future.” I posit that cash transfer implementers in Latin America have entertained three main fictional expectations: social pacification in the short term, market inclusion in the long term, and the construction of a more distributive society in the very long term. I classify and date these developing expectations into three waves of conditional cash transfers implementation.

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