How Conditional Cash Transfers Work
Author | : Pablo Ibarrarán |
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Release | : 2017-01-31 |
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ISBN | : 9781597822749 |
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Author | : Pablo Ibarrarán |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2017-01-31 |
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ISBN | : 9781597822749 |
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Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Computer network resources |
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Author | : Ariel Fiszbein |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2009-02-09 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0821373536 |
Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs aim to reduce poverty by making welfare programs conditional upon the receivers' actions. That is, the government only transfers the money to persons who meet certain criteria. These criteria may include enrolling children into public schools, getting regular check-ups at the doctor's office, receiving vaccinations, or the like. They have been hailed as a way of reducing inequality and helping households break out of a vicious cycle whereby poverty is transmitted from one generation to another. Do these and other claims make sense? Are they supported by the available empirical evidence? This volume seeks to answer these and other related questions. Specifically, it lays out a conceptual framework for thinking about the economic rationale for CCTs; it reviews the very rich evidence that has accumulated on CCTs; it discusses how the conceptual framework and the evidence on impacts should inform the design of CCT programs in practice; and it discusses how CCTs fit in the context of broader social policies. The authors show that there is considerable evidence that CCTs have improved the lives of poor people and argue that conditional cash transfers have been an effective way of redistributing income to the poor. They also recognize that even the best-designed and managed CCT cannot fulfill all of the needs of a comprehensive social protection system. They therefore need to be complemented with other interventions, such as workfare or employment programs, and social pensions.
Author | : Adato, Michelle |
Publisher | : Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2010-12-10 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0801894980 |
Conditional cash transfer programs (CCTs)cash grants to poor families that are conditional on their participation in education, health, and nutrition serviceshave become a vital part of poverty reduction strategies in many countries, particularly in Latin America. In Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin America, the contributors analyze and synthesize evidence from case studies of CCTs in Brazil, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua. The studies examine many aspects of CCTs, including the trends in development and political economy that fostered interest in them; their costs; their impacts on education, health, nutrition, and food consumption; and how CCT programs affect social relations shaped by gender, culture, and community. Throughout, the authors identify the strengths and weaknesses of CCTs and offer guidelines to those who design them.
Author | : Donald A. P. Bundy |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 977 |
Release | : 2017-11-20 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 1464804397 |
More children born today will survive to adulthood than at any time in history. It is now time to emphasize health and development in middle childhood and adolescence--developmental phases that are critical to health in adulthood and the next generation. Child and Adolescent Health and Development explores the benefits that accrue from sustained and targeted interventions across the first two decades of life. The volume outlines the investment case for effective, costed, and scalable interventions for low-resource settings, emphasizing the cross-sectoral role of education. This evidence base can guide policy makers in prioritizing actions to promote survival, health, cognition, and physical growth throughout childhood and adolescence.
Author | : Tara Patricia Cookson |
Publisher | : Saint Philip Street Press |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2020-10-09 |
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ISBN | : 9781013290619 |
Unjust Conditions follows the lives and labors of poor mothers in rural Peru, richly documenting the ordeals they face to participate in mainstream poverty alleviation programs. Championed by behavioral economists and the World Bank, conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs are praised as efficient mechanisms for changing poor people's behavior. While rooted in good intentions and dripping with the rhetoric of social inclusion, CCT programs' successes ring hollow, based solely on metrics for children's attendance at school and health appointments. Looking beyond these statistics reveals a host of hidden costs for the mothers who meet the conditions. With a poignant voice and keen focus on ethnographic research, Tara Patricia Cookson turns the reader's gaze to women's care work in landscapes of grossly inadequate state investment, cleverly drawing out the tensions between social inclusion and conditionality. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.
Author | : Marito Garcia |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 441 |
Release | : 2012-02-21 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0821388983 |
This book provides in-depth descriptions and analysis of how cash transfer programs have evolved and been used in Sub-Saharan Africa since 2000. The analysis focuses on program features and implementation, but it also highlights political economy issues and current knowledge gaps.
Author | : Alan de Brauw and John Hoddinott |
Publisher | : Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Social Science |
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Author | : Simone Cecchini |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9789211217575 |
Summarizes experience with conditional cash transfer or "co-responsibility" (CCT) programmes in Latin America and the Caribbean, over a period lasting more than 15 years.
Author | : Emmanuel Skoufias |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Incentives in industry |
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"Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs aim to alleviate poverty through monetary and in-kind benefits, as well as reduce future levels of poverty by encouraging investments in education, health, and nutrition. The success of CCT programs at reducing poverty depends on whether, and the extent to which, cash transfers affect adult work incentives. The authors examine whether the PROGRESA program of Mexico affects adult participation in the labor market and overall adult leisure time, and they link these effects to the impact of the program on poverty. Using the experimental design of PROGRESA's evaluation sample, the authors find that the program does not have any significant effect on adult labor force participation and leisure time. Their findings on adult work incentives are reinforced further by the result that PROGRESA leads to a substantial reduction in poverty. The poverty reduction effects are stronger for the poverty gap and severity of poverty measures."--World Bank web site.