Cash Transfers in Context: An Anthropological Perspective

Cash transfer programs have become the preferred channel for delivering emergency aid or tackling poverty in low- and middle-income countries, but they impose standardized norms and procedures on local contexts, leading to unpredicted consequences. This book sheds light on the importance of these contexts and the ways in which local populations interpret, circumvent, and contest external norms.

\n Format: Hardback
\n Length: 342 pages
\n Publication date: 07 September 2018
\n Publisher: Berghahn Books
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A decade ago, cash transfer programs were considered marginal in their status, but today, they have emerged as the preferred channel for delivering emergency aid and combating poverty in low- and middle-income countries. While these programs have brought about positive outcomes, they often follow a top-down approach, imposing standardized norms and procedures regarding conditionality, targeting, and delivery on local contexts. This book delves into the critical importance of these contexts and uncovers the unforeseen consequences of cash transfer programs worldwide. It explores how actors utilize these programs to pursue their own strategies and how external norms are reinterpreted, circumvented, and contested by local populations.

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. It details how the latter are used by actors to pursue their own strategies, and how external norms are reinterpreted, circumvented, and contested by local populations.

A decade ago, cash transfer programs were considered marginal in their status, but today, they have emerged as the preferred channel for delivering emergency aid and combating poverty in low- and middle-income countries. While these programs have brought about positive outcomes, they often follow a top-down approach, imposing standardized norms and procedures regarding conditionality, targeting, and delivery on local contexts.

This book delves into the critical importance of these contexts and uncovers the unforeseen consequences of cash transfer programs worldwide. It explores how actors utilize these programs to pursue their own strategies and how external norms are reinterpreted, circumvented, and contested by local populations.

\n Weight: 608g\n
Dimension: 158 x 236 x 26 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781785339578\n \n