Poverty Reduction, Education, and the Global Diffusion of Conditional Cash Transfers

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-53093-2
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3745 g

Goes beyond the traditional economics-based perspective on Conditional Cash Transfers and offers a policy based perspectiveAddresses issues of political sustainability and policy coordination within the education fieldBuilds upon a comparative study of three CCT programs across the Americas

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Morais de Sá e Silva, Michelle

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Vergleichende und Empirische Bildungsforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform

Inhaltsverzeichnis

IntroductionPart I. A Best Practice to Reduce Present and Future Poverty Chapter 1. Conditional Cash Transfer Programs and the poverty-reduction agendaChapter 2. The International Diffusion of Conditional Cash TransfersChapter 3. Framing the Study of CCT casesPart II. The Realities of CCTs in the Global North and the Global SouthChapter 4. A Conditional Cash Transfer in the Big AppleChapter 5. Money to Bear the Indirect Costs of SchoolingChapter 6. The Largest Conditional Cash Transfer in the World.- Part III. What Have We Learned?Chapter 7.  Case comparison: CCTs’ divorce from education policy and long program lives Chapter 8. Conclusion: What has the future got for this global model?

Über Autor(innen)

Michelle Morais de Sa e Silva is Wick Cary Assistant Professor of International and Area Studies at the Department of International and Area Studies, University of Oklahoma, USA. Previously, she held the position of Head of Graduate Programs and Professor at Brazil’s National School of Public Administration (Enap). Morais was also Coordinator General for International Cooperation at Brazil’s Ministry of Human Rights (2011-2014). Before that, she had been a UNESCO staff member for six years. Morais has worked in countries like Angola, Colombia, Mozambique and Russia, besides Brazil. Her research agenda has been mostly focused on issues of international cooperation for development, policy diffusion, and international comparative education.