Abstract
This paper analyses the role played by the institutional and bureaucratic state apparatus in the strategy of the Inter-American Development Bank during the 21st century. The empirical analysis focuses on a cycle of five programmes in Argentina between 2003 and 2010, which concluded with a Conditional Cash Transfer Programme called Plan Familias por la Inclusión Social. This article argues that the IDB’s interest in shaping the institutional and bureaucratic state apparatus did not disappear, but there were several changes in the manner it intervened that suggested a need to adapt its financing programs so as to face the challenges brought by social struggles. Bureaucracy also became strategic because of its capacity to materialise the condensation of the social relations of forces and thus delimit the framework for the policymaking process through a silent, impersonal, and abstract way – given by the apparent neutrality and rationality of the routine practices.
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