Cash Transfers and Basic Social Protection: Towards a Development Revolution?

Cash Transfers and Basic Social Protection offers a ground-breaking analysis of the discourses that facilitated the rise of cash transfers as instruments of development policy since the 1990s. The author gives a detailed overview of the history of social protection and identifies the factors that made cash transfers legitimate policy.

Moritz von Gliszczynski is a leading researcher at LAG Soziale Brennpunkte Niedersachsen, Germany. He holds a PhD in sociology from Bielefeld University and from 2010 to 2013 worked as a researcher for the Financial Assistance, Land Policy, and Global Social Rights research group (FLOOR).