Reflexiones teórico-metodológicas e históricas en torno a las transferencias monetarias en Costa Rica

Abstract

This article constitutes an historical and theoretical-methodological analysis of around monetary transfers as an expression of social welfare policy. The discussion analyzes the concept of conditional cash transfers as strategies to alleviate poverty generated by the economic adjustments of the 1980s and 1990s. These transfers group the public programs framed within social protection, which provides support in the form of money, conditions the permanence of the population through compulsory attendance to health and education services, being unrelated to universal policies because they are focused on certain specific groups. The analysis seeks to recognize the characteristics of social assistance contextualized in neoliberal policies, conditionality, targeting and other control mechanisms linked to the historical transformations generated in the changes of production and State models in recent decades.