Power Relations in Malawi's Social Cash Transfer Programme: The Flip Side of Domination
Power Relations in Malawi's Social Cash Transfer Programme: The Flip Side of Domination
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马拉维社会现金转移计划中的权力关系：统治的另一面
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10.1057/s41287-023-00598-6
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2023
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Hemsteede R
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Hemsteede R
可持续发展目标要求建立适合本国国情的社会保障制度。然而，发展伙伴和政府可能不同意什么是适当的，谁来保护，如何做到这一点，谁应该支付it.This本文探讨了国家和国际利益相关者之间的权力关系如何塑造马拉维的社会现金转移计划（SCTP）的设计和实施跟踪。它利用了来自47个与关键利益攸关方进行的深入访谈的新的经验数据。数据分析围绕权力关系，政治解决方案和决策的文献。它发现，发展伙伴塑造战略合作伙伴计划的权力在马拉维政治家中产生了阻力，使他们能够追求自己的优先事项。本文展示了权力关系在实践中是如何运作的，并认为权力关系是复杂的、错综复杂的，看似理性的决定可能导致不利于发展国家拥有的、可持续的社会保障制度的结果。
The Sustainable Development Goals call for nationally appropriate social protection systems. However, development partners and governments might disagree over what is appropriate, who to protect, how to do this, and who should pay for it. This paper explores how power relations between national and international stakeholders shaped Malawi’s Social Cash Transfer Programme (SCTP) by tracing its design and implementation. It draws on novel empirical data from 47 in-depth interviews with key stakeholders. Data are analysed drawing on literature around power relations, political settlements, and decision making. It finds that development partners’ power to shape the SCTP generates resistance among Malawian politicians and enables them to pursue its own priorities. The paper shows how power relations work in practice and argues that power relations are complex, entangled, and that decisions which appear rational can result in outcomes that are detrimental to developing nationally owned, sustainable, social protection systems.