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Introduction
Viviana Ramirez holds a PhD in Social and Policy Sciences from the University of Bath (UK), a Master of Science in Wellbeing and Development from the same institution, and a Bachelor in Economics from the Universidad de las Americas Puebla (Mexico). Currently she is Associate Professor at the Universidad de las Américas Puebla (Mexico) and a member of the National System of Researchers (Mexican Council of Science and Technology, CONACYT). In 2019, she was Cambridge-UDLAP Visiting Fellow at the Center for Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge. She has been consultant for research projects and international organisations in countries including UK, Spain, Zambia, Bangladesh, and India. Wellbeing is her main field of expertise, focusing on its public policy implications.
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While internationalising scholarly careers is an imperative in current academia, literature has focused on the impact of such a process at the institutional, national, and international levels. Yet, internationalisation is connected to the personal dimension of careers and, consequently, it might defy academics’ understanding of their working life....
The conditional cash transfer programme (CCT) for poor families was terminated in Mexico in 2019. CCTs seek to fight poverty under a social investment logic by promoting the formation of human capital through the compliance of behavioural conditionalities. The programme – the first of its kind introduced at national level – accomplished several ach...
This edited collection proposes a common good approach to development theory and practice. Rather than focusing on the outcomes or conditions of development, the contributors concentrate on the quality of development processes, suggesting that a common good dynamic is key in order to trigger development.
Resulting from more than three years of rese...
Previous chapters focused on the qualitative phase of this mixed-methods study exploring the well-being outcomes of officer–recipient relationships. This chapter, instead, focuses on the quantitative phase that consisted in the application of surveys to 312 recipients of Oportunidades-Prospera. Three scales were used to assess well-being and office...
This chapter presents the first piece of empirical evidence on the nature of officer–recipient relationships in Oportunidades-Prospera by scrutinizing the perspectives of physicians and nurses implementing the program in two localities of the state of Puebla. It presents the health officers’ experiences and attitudes toward program delivery, their...
After seventy decades of GDP as the ruling indicator of development and policy effectiveness, recent evidence has shown the insufficiency of growing levels of income to reduce poverty and improve quality of life. This initiated a search for a better framework. The notion of well-being has provided such alternative and nowadays the international mov...
The international consensus to eradicating poverty as a key policy objective has made conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs a popular type of social protection program. Mexico is a pioneer in the design and implementation of CCTs, introducing Oportunidades-Prospera in 1997 until 2019. CCTs have the purpose of offering income transfers in exchang...
This book set out to explore the role of relationships with health officers in the well-being of the recipients of a conditional cash transfer program in Mexico, Oportunidades-Prospera. The conclusion chapter seeks to end the journey of the book by discussing the broader connections between the findings of the quantitative and qualitative analyses...
This chapter examines the outlooks of Oportunidades-Prospera’s female recipients of their experiences in the program, the delivery of the health component, their interactions with physicians and nurses, and the channels through which these influenced well-being. It presents the findings of interviews and focus groups with recipients in two localiti...
This book provides key insights into the nature of officer–recipient relationships and shows how they have non-negligible impacts on the way recipients feel and think about themselves and their lives using mixed methods and subjective and psychosocial well-being approaches. The importance of placing well-being at the heart of policy is widely accep...
In recent years, the international development agenda gave centre stage to the need of measuring the multidimensionality of progress and quality of life. This trend led to the creation of a variety of metrics. The present article discusses a new metric which adopts a common good approach to development. It has the purpose of moving beyond individua...
Studying common good dynamics at the municipal level in Mexico provides a direct understanding of the social, economic and political life in Mexico. Using the common good metric developed by
the Institute for the Promotion of the Common Good (IPBC) for this purpose, we apply 450 surveys to evaluate the common good dynamics in the municipality of At...
This article explores interactions between the front-line officers and recipients of Oportunidades-Prospera, a conditional cash transfer (CCT) in Mexico. Like other CCTs, Oportunidades-Prospera provided monetary transfers to families with the requirement of following certain conditions, including receiving preventive healthcare and workshops. This...
El desarrollo humano y el enfoque de las capacidades ofrecen un marco normativo cuyo objetivo es transformar la realidad de las personas, aumentando tanto las oportunidades reales que tienen para vivir bien como su agencia para ser artífices de su propio destino. Para cumplir con este propósito, es necesario llevar estas ideas a la práctica, por ej...
This article explores the social relationships created in the delivery of conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes using a wellbeing lens. Most CCTs influence people’s lives in overarching terms, including income, health and education. Their implementation process, however, also places policy participants in new and constant interactions with the...
White and Ramirez present data from Chiawa, Zambia, where men and women villagers were subjects both of a predominantly quantitative survey and of more in-depth, life history interviews. The research as a whole took a comprehensive approach to wellbeing, looking across a range of factors such as health and educational status and provision, liveliho...
Esta publicación es parte de un libro editado que fue el resultado del proyecto "Cambio social y cooperación en el siglo XXI" organizado por la Universitat de Barcelona, Icária Editorial y la Fundación Educo en 2014. El capítulo analiza diversos enfoques del bienestar y la forma en la que incluyen a las relaciones humanas como un componente o deter...
