Geographies of development II: cash transfers and the reinvention of development for the poor.
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Date
2013
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Sage.
Abstract
Since the mid-1990s, a number of governments in the global South have instituted programmes which provide regular cash grants to poor people. The results of cash transfer programmes have been impressed those searching for ways to improve welfare: the depth of poverty has been reduced, more children are being educated and vaccinated, and the poor are more likely to get jobs and start enterprises. Advocates of
social democracy are hopeful that this heralds the possibility of comprehensive social protection.
Experiments in welfare in the global South do not, however, inevitably signal an epochal shift to a postneoliberal era. They form part of an increasingly heterodox approach which combines an enduring
emphasis on liberalised economic growth with bolder biopolitical interventions for the poor.
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Poverty--Government policy--Developing countries., Economic assistance--Developing countries., Economic development--Developing countries.
Citation
Ballard, R. 2013. Geographies of development II: Cash transfers and the reinvention of development for the poor. Progress in Human Geography 37(6) pp. 811-821.