The Social Production of Conditional Cash Transfers’ Impacts

• Autor(a) principal: Sanchíz, Alejandro Agudo
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da IPEA (RCIpea)
• dARK ID: ark:/51990/0013000002p3f
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ipea.gov.br/handle/11058/15867
• topic: social production; conditional cash transfers; impact

It is often assumed that the mere implementation of a Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) policy model, with its emphasis on altering recipients’ behaviour or preferences via co-responsibilities, can bring about a desired new social order. However, this assumption obscures relatively autonomous power relations operating at the local level between myriad CCT stakeholders, policy intermediaries and recipients included, which influence a CCT’s ultimate impact. Conventional theories of change that inform the causal models underpinning most CCTs overlook how different actors in a given socio-cultural arena actually defend their vested interests, producing their own contexts and thus altering CCT results in ways unanticipated by policy-makers (Mosse 2005). (…)