The Limits Of Cash Transfers: A Critique Of A Malawi Intervention

Author: Marta Luzes

Year: 2017

Category: Corporate Reports

Abstract

Education plays one of the most important roles in the development discourse and several programs and policies have been developed that aim to address the challenges existent. One of these programs is Cash Transfers (CT’s), interventions that rely on the distribution of money, either conditional or unconditional on pre-established norms, to improve the well being of the beneficiaries. However, its effects in the long-term have been questioned. This paper presents a study of a cash transfer program in Malawi and its 5- year follow-up. The study is constructed on the assumption that cash transfers serve as a technical fix for a much structural and complex problem that is caused by much more than economic poverty. It defends that once the intervention ends so does the results, since as no rooted transformation took course, people return to their own costumes and reality.

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