They can be choosers : Aid, Levinas and unconditional cash transfers
Date
2019
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Medknow Publications
Abstract
In this paper I seek to critically examine UCT’s and CCT’s and consider how a Levinasian ethics might offer normative guidelines to evaluate such aid programmes. Such an analysis will serve to both critique and supplement the traditional utilitarian analyses of such programmes. In so doing, this paper also hopes to contribute to the business ethics literature in which a Levinasian ethics may be brought to bear on real world problems. I proceed by enlisting Jordaan (2009) who argues that a Levinasian ethical politics can be instantiated in institutional designs by allowing a more complex representation of the other’s alterity. Two UCT programmes are interrogated in light of this finding – the first, a UCT programme in a community in Vietnam; the second, a joint CCT/UCT programme targeting adolescent girls in Malawi, designed to test the efficacy of conditionality to achieve certain.
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CITATION: Andrade, J. 2019. They can be choosers : Aid, Levinas and Unconditional Cash Transfers. African Journal of Business Ethics, 13(2):1-15, doi:10.15249/13-2-215.
The original publication is available at http://ajobe.journals.ac.za
The original publication is available at http://ajobe.journals.ac.za
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Unconditional cash transfer (UCT), Business ethics, Lévinas, Emmanuel -- Ethics, Poverty -- Malawi, Economic assistance -- Malawi, Economic assistance -- Vietnam, Poverty -- -- Vietnam
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Andrade, J. 2019. They can be choosers : Aid, Levinas and Unconditional Cash Transfers. African Journal of Business Ethics, 13(2):1-15, doi:10.15249/13-2-215