Nesting Expectations: What Can the Mexican and Argentinean Cash Transfers Tell Us about the Development of Development?
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https://doi.org/10.3138/anth.591.A04Keywords:
money, cash transfer, development, human capital, fictional expectationsAbstract
Latin American cash transfer programs have been implemented aiming at particular anticipatory scenarios. Given that the fulfillment of cash transfer objectives can be calculated neither empirically nor rationally a priori, I analyse these programs in this article using the concept of an “imaginary future.” I posit that cash transfer implementers in Latin America have entertained three main fictional expectations: social pacification in the short term, market inclusion in the long term, and the construction of a more distributive society in the very long term. I classify and date these developing expectations into three waves of conditional cash transfers implementation.
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