What is it about?
The paper focuses on the poverty alleviation policy, particulalry the conditional cash transfer, imlemented in the Philippines. It is based on the field work in a slum community in Metro Manila and identifies what is happening on the ground among the beneficiary residents of the community. While it is true that the CCT is helpful for the beneficiaries to augment their meager cash income, this study points out that the program works as a deveice to govern the poor through internalizing the citizenry habitus and other norms conducive to advance the markt logic.
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Why is it important?
It shows the way in which we can critically view the social policy, aids, and empowerment project which are usually taken for granted as "good".
Perspectives
I hope this paper will suggest how anthropology critically approaches to welfare, wellbeing, and social policy from the Global South.
Dr Koki Seki
Hiroshima University
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This page is a summary of: Capitalizing on Desire: Reconfiguring ‘the Social’ and the Government of Poverty in the Philippines, Development and Change, November 2015, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/dech.12200.
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