» Veröffentlicht am
7. Dezember 2018
New book from L. Leisering about "The Global Rise of Social Cash Transfers" published
Lutz Leisering (2019, publication 6 Dec 2018) The Global Rise of
Social Cash Transfers. How States and International Organizations
Constructed a New Instrument for Combating Poverty. Oxford: Oxford
University Press (xxii+453 pp)
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) proclaimed the equality
of all human beings in dignity and rights. The right to social
security, however, has been taken more seriously only since the 2000s,
through calls for ‘Social Security for All’ by the International Labour
Organization and ‘Leaving no-one behind’ in the UN’s Sustainable
Development Goals. The book investigates a major response, social cash
transfers to the poor. The idea of simply giving money to the poor had
been rejected by all major development organizations, but since the
early 2000s, social cash transfers have mushroomed in the global South
and on agendas of international organizations. How come? What programmes
have emerged in which countries? How inclusive are the programmes? What
models have international organizations devised? Based on unique
quantitative and qualitative data and on newly created concepts and
indicators, this is the first book that takes stock of all identifiable
cash transfers in all Southern countries and of the views of all major
international organizations.
The book argues that cash transfers reflect broader
changes: new understandings of development, of human rights, of global
risks, of the social responsibility of governments, and of universalism.
The book also contributes to a general theory of social policy in
development contexts, through a constructivist sociological approach
that complements the dominant approaches from welfare economics and
political economy.
The book summarizes and
theorizes the results of the research project FLOOR-B, which was
financed by the German Research Council (for more publications and
backgrounds see www.floorcash.org).
The book seeks to advance research on social cash transfers:
- by
going beyond case studies of flagship programmes to mapping all
programmes in all countries of the South, based on a unique
self-constructed data base and on new indicators
- by going from describing to theorizing and explaining cash transfers
- by going from administrative issues of finance, implementation, and effects to normative foundations
- by going from single cash transfer programmes to national cash transfer regimes (systemic approach)
- by complementing studies of domestic programmes by an analysis of concepts of international organizations since the 1990s
- by using both quantitative and qualitative methods
- by embedding social cash transfers in a general theory of social assistance and basic security in North and South
- by
developing an institutionalist sociological theory of social policy
that covers both the global North and South and focuses on processes of
recognition, complementing approaches from political economy and
development economics.
More Information about the book.
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