Textos & Contextos (Porto Alegre) (Jan 2016)
Trazos e influencias de los programas de transferencia de renta condicionada = Outlines and influences of the cash conditional transfers
Abstract
New approaches of analysis show that the public policies are the result of complex joints between diverse referential frames. Some investigations center his attention on the processes for which there develop the learnings, the convergences, the diffusion and the transfer in public policies. This article analyzes the diffusion of cash conditional transfer programs developed in Latin America and the Caribe. It shows the epicenters of the original ideas and the incident of the local epistemic communities as well as of the international organizations. The debate that these actors generated, contributed to the adoption of similar measures in the rest of the continent, by means of a movement of diffusion in the shape of wave. The adoption of the model happens in spite of the different socio-political situations between the countries recipients. The widespread adoption of the new model, re-defined the orientation of the policies of assistance in the S XXI