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Introduction: Assessing the Effects of Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin American Societies in the Early Twenty-First Century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 May 2016

Theodoros Papadopoulos  and
Ricardo Velázquez Leyer
Theodoros Papadopoulos
Affiliation:
Department of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath E-mail: [email protected]
Ricardo Velázquez Leyer
Affiliation:
Department of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath E-mail: [email protected]
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Latin America has emerged as a social policy ‘laboratory’ in recent decades and most prominent among the social policy innovations developed in the region are the so-called Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programmes (Cecchini et al., 2015; Borges Sugiyama, 2011; Martínez Franzoni et al., 2009). They have been widely promoted by international organisations across the world as policy instruments that enhance human capital and the agency of participants while reducing poverty and inequality and promoting co-responsibility and self-help in the long-term (see Sandberg, 2015; Bastagli, 2009; Lomelí, 2008, 2009).

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Themed Section on Assessing the Effects of Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin American Societies in the Early Twenty-First Century
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Social Policy and Society , Volume 15 , Issue 3 , July 2016 , pp. 417 - 420
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016 

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