Poverty Reduction, Education, and the Global Diffusion of Conditional Cash Transfers

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This book explores Conditional Cash Transfers programs within the context of education policy over the past several decades. Conditional Cash Transfer programs (CCTs) provide cash to poor families upon the fulfillment of conditions related to the education and health of their children. Even though CCTs aim to improve educational attainment, it is not clear whether Departments or Ministries of Education have internalized CCTs into their own sets of policies and whether that has had an impact on the quality of education being offered to low income students. Equally intriguing is the question of how conditional cash transfer programs have been politically sustained in so many countries, some of them having existed for over ten years. In order to explore that, this book will build upon a comparative study of three programs across the Americas: Opportunity NYC, Subsidios Condicionados a la Asistencia Escolar (Bogota, Colombia), and Bolsa Famila (Brazil). The book presents a detailed and non-official account on the NYC and Bogota programs and will analyze CCTs from both a political and education policy perspective.
Goes beyond the traditional economics-based perspective on Conditional Cash Transfers and offers a policy based perspective
Addresses issues of political sustainability and policy coordination within the education field
Builds upon a comparative study of three CCT programs across the Americas 



Goes beyond the traditional economics-based perspective on Conditional Cash Transfers and offers a policy based perspective Addresses issues of political sustainability and policy coordination within the education field Builds upon a comparative study of three CCT programs across the Americas Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Michelle Morais de Sá e Silva

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"This book provides a fascinating account of the reception and translation of a global education policy. Conditional Cash Transfer programs have ‘traveled’ from one country to another, making us wonder why they have resonated and how they were translated in a given context. This well-written book fills this huge gap in comparative policy studies.” (Gita Steiner-Khamsi, Professor of Education and Chair of the Department of International and Transcultural Studies, Teacher’s College, Columbia University, USA)

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