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Research Project CASH-IN: privately managed cash transfers in Africa

Project Duration: 09/01/2020 - 08/31/2025
The overall objective of CASH-IN is to investigate whether and to what extent privately managed cash transfers (PrivCTs) are politicized by ruling elites and how this affects inclusive sustainable growth and state-society relations. Cash transfers have become an increasingly popular way of providing international development and humanitarian assistance. Giving money to people in need is not new, but over the last two decades direct cash transfers have emerged as a key aid modality bridging the development–humanitarian nexus. Cash transfers may be funded by private donors, governments or as part of international aid. While publicly managed social-protection and cash-transfer programmes have been extensively scrutinized, hardly any studies exist of privately managed programmes. Research on publicly managed programmes indicates that politicization and capture by ruling elites impact on their ability to lead to sustainable inclusive economic growth and costly implementation of the programmes. Can privately managed cash transfers avoid the types of political capture that studies of public transfers have generally uncovered and what type of state-society relations do they produce? CASH-IN will be the first study to focus systematically on privately managed humanitarian and development cash transfers. In order to capture the political dimension of cash transfers, Uganda and Tanzania both have significant experience of the diversity of political organizations and political settlements. Tanzania is generally considered to be a dominant party-state system, while Uganda comes closer to being a competitive clientelist state. Comparative analysis of these countries enables the project to examine the links between the type of political settlement and its influence, if any, on privately managed cash transfers for both humanitarian (short-term) and development-oriented (long-term) cash-transfer programmes.

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Professor Lars Buur is leading the research programme CASH-IN: privately managed cash transfer projects in Africa.

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Research programme on the effects of privately managed cash transfers in Africa receives 12 million DKK

The research programme ’CASH-IN: Privately managed cash transfers in Africa’, which is led by Associate Professor Lars Buur from Roskilde University, has received the grant from Danida.

 

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The project is based at the Department of Social Science and Business

Participating research units: Global Political Sociology Research group // Socio-Economic Research Centre Research Centre

PhD programme: Doctoral School of Social Sciences and Business - International studies

Relevant degree programmes: International Studies // Global Studies // International Bachelor in Social Science


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Lars Buur 
Associate professor // Roskilde University
Phone +45 46743684
lbuur@ruc.dk