TY  - BOOK
AU  - Patricia Cookson, Tara
AB  - 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 efficient mechanisms for changing poor people’s behavior. While rooted in good intentions and dripping with the rhetoric of social inclusion, CCT programs’ successes ring hollow, based solely on metrics for children’s attendance at school and health appointments. Looking beyond these statistics reveals a host of hidden costs for the mothers who meet the conditions. With a poignant voice and keen focus on ethnographic research, Tara Patricia Cookson turns the reader’s gaze to women’s care work in landscapes of grossly inadequate state investment, cleverly drawing out the tensions between social inclusion and conditionality.
DO  - 10.1525/luminos.49
ID  - OAPEN ID: 649692
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1035557669
ID  - OAPEN ID: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30158
KW  - peru
KW  - behavioral economics
KW  - development
KW  - poverty
KW  - rural
KW  - gender
KW  - inclusion
KW  - conditional cash transfer
KW  - ethnography
KW  - Cajamarca
KW  - Care work
KW  - Lima
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30158/1/649692.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30158/1/649692.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30158/1/649692.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/34404
PB  - University of California Press
PP  - Oakland
PY  - 2018
SN  - 9780520969520
TI  - Unjust Conditions : Women's Work and the Hidden Cost of Cash Transfer Programs
ER  - 
