Book presentation
On Friday, November 1, 2024, the book Gender Equality in Conditional Cash Transfer Designs: A Disappearing Policy Recipe in Latin America and the World Bank? by Nora Nagels, co-director of ERIGAL, was presented. Isabel Pike, Assistant Professor of Sociology at McGill University, was the event’s commentator.
Nora Nagels is a professor in development and international cooperation in the Department of Political Science at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM). She is the co-director of the Interuniversity Research Team on Inclusion and Governance in Latin America (ERIGAL). She earned her Ph.D. in Development Studies from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva in 2013. Her doctoral research was titled “Gender and Poverty Reduction Policies in Peru and Bolivia: What Citizenship Issues?”. She completed two postdoctoral fellowships at the Université de Montréal. The first, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation at the Canada Research Chair in Citizenship and Governance, focused on gender and the diffusion of conditional cash transfer programs in Latin America. The second, conducted at the Center for International Studies and Research at the Université de Montréal (CÉRIUM), examined gender relations in the diffusion of a post-neoliberal development paradigm in Latin America.
Isabel Pike is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at McGill University. Her current book project examines gender and development policies through the contested narrative in Kenya that “the boy child has been forgotten.” Another aspect of her research explores how gender and economic status shape life trajectories, particularly in the areas of relationships and work.
