Download or read book Cash Transfers and Basic Social Protection written by Moritz von Gliszczynski and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cash Transfers and Basic Social Protection offers a ground-breaking analysis of the discourses that facilitated the rise of cash transfers as instruments of development policy since the 1990s. The author gives a detailed overview of the history of social protection and identifies the factors that made cash transfers legitimate policy.