The theory of human capital in the World Bank’s view on Conditional Cash Transfers

The Conditional Cash Transfers are a form of government of poverty that rests notoriously on individual responsibility and therefore makes the process of decision making a privileged scope to evaluate the behavior of individuals. The article analyzes the human capital theory as theoretical foundation that justifi es the adoption of Conditional Cash Transfers. We study the role of Conditional Cash Transfers on the agenda of the World Bank: we emphasizes that the arguments that the documents developed around the responsibility of poor families justify that the poverty problem becomes a problem of governance