Social transfers

Schüring, Esther

doi:10.4337/9781839109119.00014

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“…While scholarship discussing social protection still indicates effectiveness of in-kind support for emergency situations (Schüring, 2021), in-kind support is changing its meaning and is routinized and normalized through conditionality. Other welfare systems have seen a similar introduction of conditionality in in-kind support, with Sweden being a surprisingly harsh case (Samzelius and Cohen, 2020).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For instance, cash transfers might increase prices, particularly in the context of harsh poverty (Cunha et al ., 2019) with additional considerations limiting their attractiveness to policymakers. The latter operate in the context of a mix of ideas and interests predominated by the recent public appeal and political acceptability of conditionality of cash transfers (Schüring, 2021). Both Carraro and Marzi (2021) and Schüring (2021) believe that the political support for conditionality is not supported by strong evidence and its rhetorical defence hides the need to increase effective anti-poverty policy utilizing more mentoring and monitoring.…”

Section: Anti-poverty Policymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The latter operate in the context of a mix of ideas and interests predominated by the recent public appeal and political acceptability of conditionality of cash transfers (Schüring, 2021). Both Carraro and Marzi (2021) and Schüring (2021) believe that the political support for conditionality is not supported by strong evidence and its rhetorical defence hides the need to increase effective anti-poverty policy utilizing more mentoring and monitoring. Indeed, stable and universal cash transfers were recently shown to have had a statistically significant impact on poverty alleviation.…”

Section: Anti-poverty Policymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…At the same time, in-kind support, e.g. childcare service, is generally seen as universal and as representing a combination between national funding of services and aid organizations’ provisions during times of disaster and extreme needs (Schüring, 2021). The universal nature of in-kind support used to be seen as necessary for avoiding its otherwise charity features: paternalistic and depriving individuals of their freedom of choice and right to decide freely on their expenses (Currie and Gahvari, 2008; Cunha et al ., 2019).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Budgeting poverty alleviation: justifying in-kind conditionality in Israeli municipal authorities

Benjamin

Krigel

Cohen

et al. 2023

IJSSP

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PurposeWelfare reforms introduced conditionality into cash transfers often by diverse welfare-to-work programs achieving its vast legitimization. Meanwhile in-kind poverty alleviation policies maintained their universal character in the forms of national budgeting of municipal services. Utilizing justification work, the authors aim at showing how conditionality of in-kind support is replacing universalism. The authors ask which justification work assist administrators in shaping the relationship between in-kind and cash transfer and the changing meanings of poverty alleviation practices.Design/methodology/approachThe authors conducted 20 semi-structured interviews with senior administrators in Israeli local governments analysing them along principles of critical discourse analysis (Fairclough, 2010). Further, seeking to elicit the justification work, the authors added some guidelines from the discourse interaction approach.FindingsThe findings identified administrators' justification work as taking two major shapes. The first is an emphasis on conditionality in their in-kind support projects, which is limited in time, contingent upon co-operation and sometimes even enhancing choice for those in need. The second is the manifestation of pride anchored in the skilful budget management enabling the achievement of conditional in-kind support projects based on the effort involved.Research limitations/implicationsThe authors did not prompt the interviewees for the proportions of specific categories, such as whether they are attending and benefitting of the in-kind support programs. This is a limitation of this study that prevented the authors from contrasting perceived achievements against the actual coverage of their projects.Practical implicationsIt is important that government funding is increased for municipal anti-poverty policies engaging municipal administrator in the struggle for full and better coverage so that capability deprivation is combatted by a combination of cash transfer and quality social services that are universal and at the same time secure mentoring and supervision to all households in need.Social implicationsFuture research should present the analysis that associates different budgets of each city with its anti-poverty polices and its different socio-economic ranking. Critical social-policy scholars may apply this study’s findings in future analyses of municipal administrators' power position as reinforced by national level policy makers, particularly when introducing controversial policies.Originality/valueAnti-poverty policy and the specific combination between conditional cash transfers and in-kind support have been explained at the level of political–economic decision making. The authors conceptualize the need to explain anti-poverty policy by focussing on municipal administrators’ embedded agency, particularly around controversial issues. By building the professional self of municipal welfare administrators, inter alia by ignoring past meanings of in-kind support as depriving recipients of autonomy, conditionality is extended into in-kind services.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Anti-poverty Policymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Anti-poverty Policymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Budgeting poverty alleviation: justifying in-kind conditionality in Israeli municipal authorities

Benjamin

Krigel

Cohen

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IJSSP

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“…2 Social cash transfers (SCTs) have had a transformative impact on global social policy since the early 2000s, leading to their widespread adoption in the Global South countries and by international organisations. They are recognised as an important measure for achieving social protection policy objectives (Leisering, 2018;Schüring, 2021). Several factors have contributed to the increasing prominence of SCTs in the Global South.…”

Section: On the Linkages Of Formal And Informal Social Protectionmentioning

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Conceptualising the Relationship Between Formal and Informal Social Protection

Mumtaz

2023

Social Policy and Society

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To date, practical and scholarly work on the interaction between formal and informal social protection has focused on crowding in and crowding out of informal social protection by formal social protection. However, little is known about the relationship between both forms of social protection in conditions where one form of social protection is more effective than the other, or both forms of social protection are effective and ineffective. This article empirically examines how both forms of social protection interact and conceptualises this relation under these conditions by drawing on ninety semi-structured interviews with households across fourteen cities in Pakistan. The study theorises the interaction of formal and informal social protection in five different ways. Based on this, the article argues for further research to explore the relationship between formal and informal social protection in different contexts for building scholarship and policy interventions to improve the lives of the vulnerable.

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Does Social protection improve female-headed households’ food security in Ebinat district, Ethiopia

Belete,

Bayu

2023

Cogent Economics & Finance

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Social transfers

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References 14 publications

Budgeting poverty alleviation: justifying in-kind conditionality in Israeli municipal authorities

Budgeting poverty alleviation: justifying in-kind conditionality in Israeli municipal authorities

Conceptualising the Relationship Between Formal and Informal Social Protection

Does Social protection improve female-headed households’ food security in Ebinat district, Ethiopia

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