Accessibility and social policies in contemporary Argentina: an interpretation from the perspective of experts in cash transfer programmes

Abstract

By examining the experience of institutionalisation of cash transfer programmes in Argentina (2003-2015), this article proposes an approach to the idea of accessibility in social policies from the perspective of experts and State institutions in this area. The pattern of growth and expansion of Argentinian cash transfers will be explored to identify the presence of experts involved in the consolidation of social policies for the provision of cash to large vulnerable sectors of society. This pattern will allow us to explain cash transfers as policies that have transformed social protection schemes and forms of State intervention as regards poor people and poverty, have broadened the notion of accessibility of social policies, and have contributed to the creation of new political and legal debates on how to understand those entitled to State support.