Multiple Dimensions of Social Assistance: The Case of Peru's ‘Glass of Milk' Programme
研究秘鲁“一杯牛奶”计划的物质、社会和文化维度，发现该计划适应多样情境，但强化了性别化的政治庇护而非解决结构性不平等，对关注社会救助效果的研究者和政策制定者有参考价值。
Abstract Social assistance has attracted renewed interest in countries where economic growth is doing too little on its own to address high levels of income inequality and poverty. Research into the material effects of such programmes is important but can be misleading if it fails to capture their full meaning to intended beneficiaries and other stakeholders. This is illustrated by a case study of Peru's ‘glass of milk’ programme, drawing on mostly qualitative evidence of its material, social and cultural dimensions. The programme is found to be well adapted to diverse contexts, but in a way that enhances its efficacy as a gendered instrument of mass patronage rather than as a means of addressing Peru's structural inequalities. The paper also suggests that a switch to conditional cash transfers is unlikely, on its own, to change this.