Monetizing State Services to the Poor: Intentional Analysis of Three Latin-American. Conditional Cash Transfer Programs

ANDRES DAPUEZ; TALITA EGER, SABRINA GAVIGAN

Journal of International and Global Studies

Lindenwood University Press

Lugar: St. Charles, MO; Año: 2016 vol. 7 p. 1 - 1

!--[if gte mso 9]> Conditional Cash Transfers(CCTs) have been described as fundamental for the ?post-neo-liberal? turn inLatin America. Through an analysis of the stated and unstated goals of threeCCT development programs in Latin America: Mexico´s Progresa-Oportunidades, 1997-, Brazil´s Programa Bolsa Familia (BF) 2003-, and Argentina?s AsignacionUniversal por Hijo (AUH), 2009-, thispaper suggests, instead, that CCTs portend the continuation of long-establishedeconomic monetarist policies in the region, providing poor families with meageramounts of money, barely sufficient for their subsistence. Despite the factthat progressive populisms in Brazil and Argentina have imbued cash transferswith new discursive qualit