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Unjust Conditions
Tara Patricia Cookson
其他書名
Women's Work and the Hidden Cost of Cash Transfer Programs
出版
Univ of California Press
, 2018-05-10
主題
Social Science / Gender Studies
Business & Economics / Development / Economic Development
History / Latin America / South America
Social Science / Women's Studies
Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
ISBN
0520969529
9780520969520
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Gln0DwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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Unjust Conditions
follows the lives and labors of poor mothers in rural Peru, richly documenting the ordeals they face to participate in mainstream poverty alleviation programs. Championed by behavioral economists and the World Bank, conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs are praised as efficient mechanisms for changing poor people's behavior. While rooted in good intentions and dripping with the rhetoric of social inclusion, CCT programs' successes ring hollow, based solely on metrics for children’s attendance at school and health appointments. Looking beyond these statistics reveals a host of hidden costs for the mothers who meet the conditions. With a poignant voice and keen focus on ethnographic research, Tara Patricia Cookson turns the reader’s gaze to women’s care work in landscapes of grossly inadequate state investment, cleverly drawing out the tensions between social inclusion and conditionality.