Conditional Cash Transfers : A New Paradigm for Combating Poverty in Latin America?

Pérez and Brown analyze the strategies behind the implementation of Conditional Monetary Transfer Programs (CMTP) in Latin America since the 1990s. Those policies were a new attempt at engaging the pervasiveness of unemployment. In fact, the authors explain that these poli- cies come as an oddity since they have multiplied even after the so- called progressive governments. They attempt to study the different CMTP in the region and its main characteristics, providing a critical reflection on the diagnosis they rely on and on the policies themselves.Fil: Pérez, Pablo Ernesto. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación. Instituto de Investigaciones en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales (UNLP-CONICET); Argentina.Fil: Brown, Brenda. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación. Instituto de Investigaciones en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales (UNLP-CONICET); Argentina