Mi Familia Progresa: change and continuity in Guatemala’s social policy

Gaia, Elena

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“…According to UNDP (2011), by January 2011, the beneficiary families equaled 862,000 and the population covered by the program was roughly equal to 4.8 million (or, about a third of Guatemala's total population of 14.4 million in 2010), of which 739,000 were children of age 0 to 5 years old and 1.6 million of age 6 to 15. 16 As pointed out by Gaia (2010), however, the benefit is a fixed amount of cash not adjusted by the number of children, family size or any other special circumstance. Even though the coverage of this program is not that small (about a 32.9 percent of the poor receive benefits), the average transfer is very small.…”

Section: Government Spending and Taxationmentioning

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Fiscal Policy, Inequality, and the Ethnic Divide in Guatemala

Cabrera¹,

Lustig

Morán³

2015

World Development

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Guatemala is one of the most unequal countries in Latin America and has the highest incidence of poverty. The indigenous population is more than twice as likely of being poor than the nonindigenous group. Fiscal incidence analysis based on the 2009-2010 National Survey of Family Income and Expenditures shows that taxes and transfers do almost nothing to reduce inequality and poverty overall or along ethnic and ruralurban lines. Persistently low tax revenues are the main limiting factor. Tax revenues are not only low but also regressive. Consumption taxes are regressive enough to offset the benefits of cash transfers: poverty after taxes and cash transfers is higher than market income poverty.

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Section: Government Spending and Taxationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Fiscal Policy, Inequality, and the Ethnic Divide in Guatemala

Cabrera¹,

Lustig

Morán³

2015

World Development

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“…This is most notable in regards to Guatemala's state‐sponsored conditional cash‐transfer program, which provides money to impoverished families in exchange for meeting conditions such as school attendance and visiting health clinics. Critics of conditional cash‐transfer programs question the sustainability and effectiveness of such programs, as they fail to address structural challenges such as land tenure (Gaia ; Standing ). Rather, the emphasis on behavioral change frames the causes of poverty as “[stemming] from character deficiency, ‘persistent misguidedness,’ ignorance or laziness” (Standing , 28).…”

Section: Development Practitioner Dissonance: Surveilling the Broken mentioning

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Security, Development, and Fear In Guatemala: Enduring Ties and Lasting Consequences

Clouser

2019

Geographical Review

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This paper investigates the long‐term ties between security, development, and fear in Guatemala. I argue that as the development apparatus in Guatemala has long been structured around violence and security concerns, development encounters in the contemporary era continue to be shaped by fear. The confluence of multiple mechanisms of fear, including the legacies of violence, surveillance, and coercion, structure development encounters in profound ways. Drawing on semistructured interviews with development practitioners, I examine their perceptions of fear's impact on development encounters at the local level to highlight the problematic culture of fear rhetoric, which serves to obscure practices through which lived experiences of fear are reproduced. Emphases on social cohesion, solidarity, and behaviors which “better contribute” to development work to mask the racialized elements of these discourses and ultimately serve to silence and delegitimize indigenous demands for structural change and justice in the country

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“…In terms of national budget, Mexico and Brazil commit only 0.5 per cent of GDP to their programmes. Guatemala is one of the latest Latin American countries to embark on reform with Mi Familia Progresa (My Family Progresses), introduced in 2008 (Gaia, 2010). As well as familiar conditions relating to school attendance and the use of health services, other conditions continue to be tested, for example, adult education, microcredit, housing and accommodation schemes, also involving 'bed net' schemes to help protect people against malaria-carrying mosquitoes (DFID, 2011).…”

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Uses and misuses of evaluation in social policy

Deeming¹

2017

Handbook of Social Policy Evaluation

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The Strathprints institutional repository (https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk) is a digital archive of University of Strathclyde research outputs. It has been developed to disseminate open access research outputs, expose data about those outputs, and enable the management and persistent access to Strathclyde's intellectual output. Uses and misuses of evaluation in social policy Christopher Deeming We can achieve a sort of control under which the controlled, though they are following a code much more scrupulously than was ever the case under the old system, nevertheless feel free. They are doing what they want to do, not what they are forced to do. That's the source of the tremendous power of positive reinforcementthere's no restraint and no revolt. By careful cultural design, we control not the final behaviour, but the inclination to behavethe motives, desires, the wishes.

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Mi Familia Progresa: change and continuity in Guatemala’s social policy

Cited by 10 publications

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Fiscal Policy, Inequality, and the Ethnic Divide in Guatemala

Fiscal Policy, Inequality, and the Ethnic Divide in Guatemala

Security, Development, and Fear In Guatemala: Enduring Ties and Lasting Consequences

Uses and misuses of evaluation in social policy

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