Efectos no intencionados del programa Prospera en el bienestar

• Ramírez, Viviana ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad de las Américas Puebla

     Universidad de las Américas Puebla

     México

     
• Localización: Perfiles latinoamericanos: revista de la Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Sede México, ISSN-e 2309-4982, ISSN 0188-7653, Vol. 31, Nº. 62, 2023
• Idioma: español
• DOI: 10.18504/pl3162-003-2023
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Non-intentional effects of the Prospera program on well-being
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  • español

    El uso del bienestar como indicador para monitorear el estado de las sociedades es cada vez más común a nivel internacional; a pesar de esto, la evaluación de políticas públicas generalmente se enfoca en resultados más inmediatos y materiales. Este artículo, en cambio, utiliza un enfoque multidimensional de bienestar para evaluar los impactos del programa de transferencias monetarias condicionadas (tmc) de México, Prospera. Los hallazgos de este estudio cualitativo revelan efectos contradictorios y no intencionados de la transferencia monetaria y las condicionalidades del programa en el bienestar de las familias beneficiarias en áreas como confianza económica, relaciones personales, sentido de competencia, autoestima, agencia, entre otros. Estos resultados subrayan la importancia de tomar en cuenta el bienestar a la hora de diseñar, implementar y evaluar tmc y políticas sociales en general.

  • English

    The role of well-being in evaluating the state of societies is increasingly accepted. However, the evaluation of public policies continues to focus on their immediate and material results. This article, in contrast, uses a multidimensional well-being approach to assess the impacts of Mexico’s most important anti-poverty program, the Prospera conditional cash transfer (cct). The findings of this qualitative study reveal how the cash transfer and the conditionalities of ccts can have contradictory and unintentional effects on the well-being of their beneficiaries —including their economic confidence, social relationships, competence, self-worth, agency, among others—. These results underscore the importance of taking into account multiple dimensions of well-being when designing, implementing and evaluating ccts and social policies in general.

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