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Cash Transfers in Context

Cash Transfers in Context

Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan | Emmanuelle Piccoli

(2018)

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Abstract

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 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 - 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.


Emmanuelle Piccoli is an Assistant Professor of Development Studies at the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium. She is an anthropologist, and has been carrying out research in the Peruvian Andes since 2005. Her publications include Les Rondes paysannes: Vigilance, politique et justice dans les Andes péruviennes (Academia, 2011) as well as numerous papers.


“This book has much to say to scholars, students and practitioners of development. It addresses a particular development model which is widely disseminated around the globe, neither aiming to endorse nor critique it in principle, but to examine how it actually works, or fails to work, in specific locations.” • Lindsay DuBois, Dalhousie University

“This book – the first collection of its kind – will make an important contribution to the literature on cash transfer programs. Many of the chapters are written by practitioners with in-depth knowledge of the communities they write about which brings an on-the-ground perspective that is often missing from the literature.” • Linda Abarbanell, San Diego State University


Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan is Professor of Anthropology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and Emeritus Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (both in France). He is also based at LASDEL, Niger. He has written numerous books in French and in English and is currently working on an empirical anthropology of public actions and modes of governance in West Africa.

Table of Contents

Section Title Page Action Price
Cash Transfers in Context iii
Copyright Page iv
Contents v
List of Figures and Tables vii
Introduction. Cash Transfers and the Revenge of Contexts 1
Chapter 1. Miracle Mechanisms, Traveling Models, and the Revenge of Contexts 29
Chapter 2. Realizing Cash Transfer Programs through Collective Obligations 92
Chapter 3. Types of Permanence 113
Chapter 4. Queuing in the Sun 141
Chapter 5. Conditional Cash Transfer Program Implementation and Effects in Peruvian Indigenous Contex 160
Chapter 6. Making Good Mothers 184
Chapter 7. Expectations beyond Development 202
Chapter 8. Conditional Cash Transfer and Gender, Class, and Ethnic Domination 225
Chapter 9. Behind the Official Story 243
Chapter 10. Are Cash Transfers Rocking or Wrecking the World of Social Workers in Egypt? 264
Chapter 11. Juggling between Social Obligations and Personal Benefit in Western Côte d’Ivoire 284
Chapter 12. Cash Transfers in Rural Niger 300
Index 323