The challenge of contemporary welfare : conditional cash transfers in Indonesia /
A growing number of scholars hold that our world is an increasingly unequal one in which most people own nothing but debt, most lack permanent well-paid jobs, most wealth is hidden offshore, and the poor are imperilled by perpetual economic crisis. They challenge us to consider how to distribute wea...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
SAGE Publications: SAGE Business Cases Originals,
2023.
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| Series: | SAGE business cases.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | A growing number of scholars hold that our world is an increasingly unequal one in which most people own nothing but debt, most lack permanent well-paid jobs, most wealth is hidden offshore, and the poor are imperilled by perpetual economic crisis. They challenge us to consider how to distribute wealth more effectively through new welfare programs. The distribution of welfare comes with new challenges. Who will fund the programs? Who should receive the payments? How will the welfare be distributed? In this case students will examine this challenge through the example of a relatively new and popular form of welfare known as conditional cash transfers (CCTs) in the low-income neighbourhoods of Indonesia's second largest city. The case highlights how the limitations of this mode of welfare distribution by states are opportunities for de-facto distributions of it by people who extend it to those in need. It shows how some of the answers to this challenge of welfare are not found in human rights clauses, targeted poverty alleviation mechanisms, or objective poverty data, but in the existing social relations through which people distribute welfare money. By understanding those social relations, students will understand how contemporary welfare programs work, even when they are seemingly not working, and how those workings can be incorporated into welfare policies that improve welfare programs. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| ISBN: | 9781529622959 1529622956 |