Opportunities for the Poor, Co-responsibilities for Women
Female Capabilities and Vulnerability in Human Development Policy and Practice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2183544 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alejandro Agudo Sanchíz (0000-0001-9475-4687) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 533-554 |
| Publication date | 2010-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Human Development (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1464-9888 • E-ISSN: 1469-9516 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/19452829.2010.520915 |
| OpenAlex | W2051776961 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 12 |
This paper looks at a particular type of anti‐poverty aid and its implications for gender inequality. The development model underpinning the Mexican Oportunidades Programme, a ‘flagship’ in Latin America, focuses on the reduction of inter‐generational poverty through transfers conditioned on ‘co‐responsibilities’ fulfilled especially by mothers and aimed at strengthening the human capital of household members. Through a consultant‐insider narrative on the tension between this policy model and the actual lives of beneficiaries, the paper scrutinizes the delivery of the Programme in the light of the capabilities approach. Some case studies are then examined within this framework, assessing the position of women in each case by reviewing the state of their capabilities and resources. This exercise reveals social relationships obscured by the Programme’s representations and assumptions of gender roles within families, pointing to a significant failure to address women’s own needs by development schemes aimed at poverty rather than at inequality
Chronic poverty · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Human capital · Inequality · Insider · Narrative · Political science · Poverty · Poverty reduction · Sociology · Underpinning · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
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Bibliography on the Capability Approach 2010–2011
The trouble with money
Monetizing State Services to the Poor
Leer el ‘desorden’. Cambio agrario, campesinados y el Sembrando Vida
Why expanding capabilities does not necessarily imply reducing injustice
The Gendered Reading of Conditionality in Antipoverty Programmes
Mexico's Prospera Program and Indigenous Women's Reproductive Rights
Development and the Temporality of Its Exchange. How an Eastern Yucatec Village Made Cash Transfer Promises Accountable
Well-Being, Agency and Freedom
Development as Freedom
Inequality Reexamined
Capabilities as Fundamental Entitlements
Capabilities, Lists, and Public Reason
Mothers at the Service of the New Poverty Agenda
The asset vulnerability framework
Women and Human Development
The Capability Approach
Mobilization without Emancipation? Women's Interests, the State, and Revolution in Nicaragua
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2023 (13) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |