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Carlos Cárdenas Escutia

The history of the Mexican Conditional Cash Transfer programme


Supervisors:

Professor Maxine Molyneux and Dr Néstor Castañeda

Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) were launched on a national scale in Mexico in 1997. Since then, they have reached a great number of developing countries and have even been implemented in some developed economies. In order to have a deeper understanding of the recent changes that have been introduced by the current administration, my research will explore, through a Critical Discourse Analysis approach, the history of the flagship Mexican Conditional Cash Transfer programme, some of the problematisations it contains as well as alternative problematisations that may have been side-lined.