A Comparison of Cash Transfer Programs in the Global North and South

Dwyer, Ryan; Stewart, Kaitlyn; Zhao, Jiaying

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“…Such interventions include attempts towards mainstreaming the idea of basic incomes and conditional cash transfers; provision of limited welfare benefits; governmentfunded job guarantee schemes at minimal wages; public distribution of food grains or cooked food at subsidized rates to targeted groups; provision of education vouchers or subsidized health insurances; limited microcredit loans with subsidized interest rates to petty producers, traders and small businesses; and so on. Some of these forms of transfers have also become increasingly widespread in the economies in the global North, particularly after the 2008 global financial crisis and during the COVID-19 pandemic (Dwyer et al, 2022;Gentilini et al, 2021). This does not, of course, imply that there is a fundamental global restructuring of capital's nature, or its relation with the rest of the society through a process of re-embedding it within social relations, or even a return to the old forms of welfare state.…”

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Contradictions and Crisis in the World of Work: Informality, Precarity and the Pandemic

Kesar¹,

Bhattacharya²,

Banerjee³

2022

Development and Change

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The severe economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global working population can be interpreted as both a fallout from, and a violent assertion of, a larger crisis in the world of work. While this crisis has been attributed to the pre-existing conditions of widespread informality and precarity in the domain of remunerative work, the authors of this article dig deeper to read these conditions and the crisis tendencies as articulations of certain key contradictions that define the world of work in the present conjuncture of global capitalism. The article highlights three specific contradictions: that between capital and labour in the 'interior' space of capital; that between capital and its 'outside'; and those emerging from 'dispersion' of the circuit of capital to its 'outside'. The 'outside' is the economic space that exists within the capitalist social formation but represents the domain of unwaged work carried out in the processes of non-capitalist production and distribution, both within and outside the space of the household. The authors argue that the expanded reproduction of capital has sharpened this triad of contradictions in the present conjuncture in specific ways in the global South and the global North through continuous informalization of work, exclusion of masses of population from the 'interior' domain of capital, and insistent dispersion of the circuit of capital to its 'outside' through various forms of 'non-standard' labour processes and work arrangements. The article provides some illustrations of how these processes have registered and contributed to the crisis situation in the times of the pandemic. PANDEMIC, CRISIS AND CONDITIONS OF INFORMALITYThe expression 'crisis' is often used in popular discourse and scholarly imaginations to describe the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the All authors have contributed equally to this work. We thank the editor of this Forum issue and the anonymous reviewers for their comments and suggestions on various drafts of the article.

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