Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Schuring, Esther
Author-Email: esther.schuering@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Author-Workplace-Name: Maastricht Graduate School of Governance, Maastricht University
Title: Preferences for conditioning and being conditioned: Experimental and survey 
	 evidence from Zambia
Abstract: While conditionality is a frequently discussed topic among policy-makers 
	 and cooperating partners, less attention has been paid to the views of 
	 the general public and beneficiaries in low-income countries. Using 
	 qualitative, survey and experimental evidence from Zambia, this study 
	 contrasts the perceptions of beneficiaries and the broader public with 
	 those of policy-makers and assesses the factors that influence choices 
	 about imposing conditionalities. The study shows that conditionality 
	 meets with general approval under certain conditions. It was agreed that 
	 conditionality should not be too punitively enforced lest it lead to 
	 greater tension but can meet the interests of policy-makers, the general 
	 public and beneficiaries alike, exerting the necessary control for 
	 transfer givers and the guidance for transfer recipients. The 
	 experiment, however, also demonstrates that conditionality preferences 
	 are neither homogeneous nor static and are likely to change with more 
	 exposure to social cash transfers and conditionality.
Classification-JEL: I38, P16, P46 
Keywords: conditionality, social cash transfers, political economy, empowerment 
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 2011
Number: 046
File-URL: http://www.merit.unu.edu/publications/wppdf/2011/wp2011-046.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 275 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2011046