Essays about: "Juntos"

Found 5 essays containing the word Juntos.

  1. 1. Being Together through ICTs : Transnational Family Practices in the Context of Ukrainian Forced Migration

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

    Author : LARA SANCHEZ GIL; [2023]
    Keywords : Ukrainian narratives; transnational living; co-presence; family practices; information and communication technologies ICTs ; and Spain; Narrativas ucranianas; vida transnacional; co-presencia; prácticas familiares; tecnologías de la información y comunicación TIC ; España.;

    Abstract : According to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR, 2023), some 117.2 million people will be forcibly displaced or stateless by 2023. In this scenario, a large number of families will have to be reconfigured within a transnational setting. READ MORE

  3. 2. Cash is Queen - Impacts of conditional cash transfers on women’s empowerment

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Linn Hedman; Clara Leandersson; [2017]
    Keywords : Conditional Cash Transfers; Women’s Empowerment; Peru; Propensity Score Matching; Difference-in-Differences; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates the causal effects of the Peruvian conditional cash transfer (CCT) program, Juntos, on women’s empowerment defined along the psychological and familial dimensions. Usually, the main goal of CCTs is to reduce poverty. READ MORE

  4. 3. Conditional Cash Transfer Programs and Inequality of Opportunity. A case study: Juntos in Peru

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Patricia Festa Secanella; [2017]
    Keywords : Juntos; Inequality of opportunity; NBI; conditional cash transfers; Peru; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Inequality of Opportunity has recently emerged in the development agenda. The unequal access to opportunities can reinforce poverty and inequality traps. Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs have consolidated as an important policy tool to fight against poverty. In addition, they have a great potential to equalize opportunities. READ MORE

  5. 4. Cash for class - an investigation into child labour and enrolment subsidies in Peru

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Emma Johansson; Julie Rondeau; [2015]
    Keywords : Child labour; Unpaid labour; Conditional cash transfers; Child poverty;

    Abstract : With high rates of child labour as a result of extensive poverty in Peru, measures are needed to protect children from exploitation. The conditional cash transfer (CCT) programme Juntos provides enrolment subsidies to incentivise sending children to school, with an indirect goal of keeping them out of the labour market. READ MORE

  6. 5. ‘We Are New People Now’ : Pentecostalism as a Means of Ethnic Continuity and Social Acceptance among the Wichí of Argentina

    University essay from Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

    Author : Gabriela Kristek; [2005]
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    Abstract : This thesis deals with ethnic and religious continuity among the Wichí Amerindian people of Argentina, after their conversion to Pentecostalism in the beginning of the 1980’s. The underlying assumption in the thesis is that no fundamental religious or ritual changes take place suddenly. READ MORE