Bibliograph

Cash transfers in context, an anthropological perspective, edited by Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan and Emmanuelle Piccoli

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Cash transfers in context, an anthropological perspective, edited by Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan and Emmanuelle Piccoli

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Cash transfers in context

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bibliography

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1023486133

Responsibility statement

edited by Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan and Emmanuelle Piccoli

Sub title

an anthropological perspective

Summary

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 imported and standardized norms and procedures regarding conditionality, targeting, and delivery on local contexts. 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.--, Provided by Publisher

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