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The Social Investment Perspective, Conditional Cash Transfer Programmes and the Welfare Mix: Peru and Bolivia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 May 2016

Nora Nagels
Nora Nagels*
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) 400, rue Sainte-Catherine Est, Pavillon Hubert Aquin, Montréal (Québec) H2L 2C5 Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programmes have spread across Latin America since the late 1990s. They constitute one of the major changes in social policy in Latin America in the last twenty years (Barrientos, 2009). This innovation has significantly influenced the welfare mix (Esping-Andersen, 1990). Those who examine the welfare mix from a feminist perspective (Orloff, 1996; Martínez, 2008) insist that it is necessary to take into account the gender consequences of changing this mix. Based on a qualitative analysis of CCT programmes in Peru and Bolivia, this article makes two arguments. First, CCT programmes demonstrate that instead of being purely liberal or even neoliberal, the actions of the state in the production of welfare are now grounded from the perspective of social investment. Second, in Peru and Bolivia, the gendered impacts of this new state orientation nonetheless reinforce maternalistic and coercive practices.

Keywords

GenderWelfare regimePeruBoliviaSocial policies
Type
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. 479 - 493
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016 

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