Poverty Reduction, Education, and the Global Diffusion of Conditional Cash Transfers / by Michelle Morais de Sá e Silva.

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Poverty Reduction, Education, and the Global Diffusion of Conditional Cash Transfers / by Michelle Morais de Sá e Silva.

9783319530949
3319530941
9783319530932

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

English

1 online resource (xii, 184 pages) : illustrations.

10.1007/978-3-319-53094-9 doi

LB43

370.116
370.9

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.

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