Poverty Reduction, Education, and the Global Diffusion of Conditional Cash Transfers

Michelle Morais de Sa e Silva is Wick Cary Assistant Professor of International and Area Studies at the Department of International and Area Studies, University of Oklahoma, USA. Previously, she held the position of Head of Graduate Programs and Professor at Brazil’s National School of Public Administration (Enap). Morais was also Coordinator General for International Cooperation at Brazil’s Ministry of Human Rights (2011-2014). Before that, she had been a UNESCO staff member for six years. Morais has worked in countries like Angola, Colombia, Mozambique and Russia, besides Brazil. Her research agenda has been mostly focused on issues of international cooperation for development, policy diffusion, and international comparative education.

• Introduction.- Part I. A Best Practice to Reduce Present and Future Poverty.- Chapter 1. Conditional Cash Transfer Programs and the poverty-reduction agenda.- Chapter 2. The International Diffusion of Conditional Cash Transfers.- Chapter 3. Framing the Study of CCT cases.- Part II. The Realities of CCTs in the Global North and the Global South.- Chapter 4. A Conditional Cash Transfer in the Big Apple.- Chapter 5. Money to Bear the Indirect Costs of Schooling.- Chapter 6. The Largest Conditional Cash Transfer in the World.- Part III. What Have We Learned?.- Chapter 7.  Case comparison: CCTs’ divorce from education policy and long program lives.- Chapter 8. Conclusion: What has the future got for this global model?.