Mothers at the Service of the New Poverty Agenda: Progresa/Oportunidades, Mexico's Conditional Transfer Programme

By M. Molyneux. 2006

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies, Safety Research

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1. S. Chant
2. S. Bradshaw
3. A. Barrientos
4. A. Hall
5. A. Roberts
6. C. Sweetman
7. Amber Peterman
8. Melissa Hidrobo

In Gender Studies

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2. S. Chant
3. A. Roberts
4. A. Barrientos
5. A. Hall
6. Melissa Hidrobo
7. C. Sweetman
8. Amber Peterman

In Safety Research

1. S. Chant
2. S. Bradshaw
3. A. Roberts
4. A. Barrientos
5. A. Hall
6. C. Sweetman
7. Melissa Hidrobo
8. Amber Peterman

Citations in the corpus

• Labour markets and the (hyphenated) welfare regime in Latin America (2009, background): “14 For a discussion on whether new forms of social assistance reduce familialism, see Molyneux (2006).”
• Fixing women or fixing the world? ‘Smart economics’, efficiency approaches, and gender equality in development (2012, background): “Women are enlisted as footsoldiers to serve in battles whose aims are not related directly to their interests / consigned to the role of ‘conduit for policy’ (Molyneux 2006), in the service of others, particularly children.”
• Women, gender and the informal economy:An assessment of ILO research and suggested ways forward (2008, unknown): “…arguments concerning the adverse effects of the " feminization " of anti-poverty initiatives such as Conditional Cash Transfer programmes made in recent feminist academic work in a variety of contexts (see Bradshaw, 2008; Chant, 2007a; Mayoux, 2006; Molyneux, 2006; also Valenzuela, ed., 2004).”
• A Mixed-Method Review of Cash Transfers and Intimate Partner Violence in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (2018, background): “…studies focusing on the Africa region come to the same broad conclusions (Bonilla et al. 2017), and others raise competing arguments that CTs can reinforce traditional gender norms, or place an additional burden on women’s time use, further reinforcing gender inequities (Molyneux 2006; Chant 2008).”
• The Political Economy of “Transnational Business Feminism” (2015, background): “…stigmatize the programs, reproduce and deepen divisions among the population and impose new responsibilities and forms of discipline on women who must participate in health workshops, attend regular health checks and ensure their children’s attendance at school (Molyneux 2006; United Nations 2010).”
• The Unpaid Care Work–Paid Work Connection (2008, unknown): “More significantly, attention has been drawn to the ways in which women in such programmes seem to be “primarily positioned as a means to secure programme objectives; they are a conduit of policy, in the sense that resources channeled through them are expected to translate into greater improvements ”
• Re‐thinking the “Feminization of Poverty” in Relation to Aggregate Gender Indices (2006, background): “(See also Molyneux, 2006) Men, on the other hand, despite their lesser inputs, are somehow managing to retain their traditional privileges and prerogatives.”
• Can Cash Transfer Programmes Have ‘Transformative’ Effects? (2016, background): “For some authors this necessarily also involved empowering the poor to tackle oppressive social relations, and treating poor people as citizens with rights, with a voice in programme design and implementation (Devereux and Sabates-Wheeler, 2004; Molyneux, 2006; Kabeer, 1999; Sen, 1999; Stewart, 2002”
• Brazil's Bolsa Família: A Double-Edged Sword? (2008, background): “…and reducing dropouts, stimulating higher levels of household consumption, improving child nutrition and cutting child labour (de Britto, 2008; Molyneux, 2006; Skoufias, 2005). inequality was registered from 2001 to 2004 in Brazil, as noted above, there has been a steady rise in urban poverty…”
• From Structural Adjustment to Social Adjustment (2008, background): “During the 1990s, social policy was refashioned to reflect changing priorities and women became more visible (Molyneux, 2006).”