Unjust Conditions : Women's Work and the Hidden Cost of Cash Transfer Programs /

Unjust Conditions : Women's Work and the Hidden Cost of Cash Transfer Programs /

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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 effi...

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Main Author: Cookson, Tara Patricia, 1983- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Rural women > Economic conditions.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gender Studies.
Regional and national history.
Gender studies, gender groups.
Development studies.
Aide au developpement economique regional > Aspect social > Perou.
Femmes en milieu rural > Perou > Conditions economiques.
Economic assistance, Domestic > Social aspects > Peru.
Rural women > Peru > Economic conditions.
Peru.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : making aid conditional
  • Setting the conditions
  • The ironic conditions of clinics and schools
  • Rural women walking and waiting
  • Paid and unpaid labor on the frontline state
  • Shadow conditions and the immeasurable burden of improvement
  • Conclusion : toward a caring society.

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