Conditional Cash Transfer Programs (CCT) have been implemented in México and LatinAmerica since the late 1990's. This type of program focuses on providing social government services by way of direct cash transfers to poor families that are often conditioned to the use of public education and health services. Despite the apparent short-term success of these CCT programs in the Latin American context, there still is much debate about whether CCT programs are effective in alleviating poverty. This paper analyzes the effectiveness of conditional cash transfer programs as a long-term incentive in the use of public services-health and education-among beneficiary families of PROSPERA-Oportunidades in Mexico. The Average Effect of Treatment on the Treated (ATT) for the time period 2002-2012 is estimated based on data from the Mexican Family Life Survey (MxFLS) using Propensity Score Matching (PSM). The results show that the program's impact on the use of preventive health and education services by poor families cannot be sustained in the long-term, which puts in doubt the effectiveness of this social protection intervention program in combating poverty in Mexico.
This paper argues that there is an implicit morality in state social policies that govern access to social protection. It presents some selected findings from a case study carried out in 2007 in a rural community in Michoacan, Mexico and, using a qualitative approach, examines how the moral discourses of obligation and sanction implicitly embedded in the notion of conditionality have gendered the interaction of rural poor households with state health institutions.
El presente documento busca alentar el interés por realizar investigación cualitativa sobre las prácticas laborales en empresas familiares desde la perspectiva de la responsabilidad social empresarial. Para ello, se ponen en perspectiva los derechos humanos laborales fundamentales y su diligencia a través de buenas prácticas laborales, así como la interrelación de estas prácticas con las acciones voluntarias de responsabilidad social empresarial. La interrelación de estos conceptos se aborda desde la perspectiva teórica del modelo bidimensional de la responsabilidad social empresarial, el cual permite discriminar las prácticas laborales en función de la visión y el costo-beneficio que representan para la empresa. El análisis se desarrolla en empresas familiares industriales del sector de la moda en México, seleccionadas a través de una muestra no probabilística y bajo la metodología de caso de estudio. La información recabada y la presentación de resultados es tratada como casos específicos e independientes entre sí. En este sentido, el trabajo que aquí se presenta es de carácter exploratorio y no concluyente; a partir de los casos estudiados se detona la necesidad de replicar este tipo de estudios en muestras amplias para enriquecer el conocimiento sobre el tema.
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