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

Michelle Morais de Sá e Silva

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9783319530932
• eBook ISBN:
  9783319530949
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Comparative Education

This book explores Conditional Cash Transfers programs within the context of education policy over the past several decades. Conditional Cash Transfer programs (CCTs) provide cash to poor families upon the fulfillment of conditions related to the education and health of their children. Even though CCTs aim to improve educational attainment, it is not clear whether Departments or Ministries of Education have internalized CCTs into their own sets of policies and whether that has had an impact on the quality of education being offered to low income students. Equally intriguing is the question of how conditional cash transfer programs have been politically sustained in so many countries, some of them having existed for over ten years. In order to explore that, this book will build upon a comparative study of three programs across the Americas: Opportunity NYC, Subsidios Condicionados a la Asistencia Escolar (Bogota, Colombia), and Bolsa Famila (Brazil). The book presents a detailed and non-official account on the NYC and Bogota programs and will analyze CCTs from both a political and education policy perspective.

Table of contents

• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• Abbreviations
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Introduction
• Part I A Best Practice to Reduce Present and Future Poverty
• Chapter 1 Conditional Cash Transfer Programs and the Poverty-Reduction Agenda
• Chapter 2 The International Diffusion of Conditional Cash Transfers
• Chapter 3 Framing the Study of CCT Cases
• Part II The Realities of CCTs in the Global North and the Global South
• Chapter 4 A Conditional Cash Transfer in the Big Apple
• Chapter 5 Money to Bear the Indirect Costs of Schooling
• Chapter 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?
• Index