Conditional Cash Transfers

Author : Ariel Fiszbein,Norbert R. Schady
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821373536

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Conditional Cash Transfers by Ariel Fiszbein,Norbert R. Schady Pdf

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 : Michelle Morais de Sá e Silva
Publisher : Springer
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319530949

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Poverty Reduction, Education, and the Global Diffusion of Conditional Cash Transfers by Michelle Morais de Sá e Silva Pdf

This book explores Conditional Cash Transfers programs within the context of education policy over the past several decades. Conditional Cash Transfer programs (CCTs) provide cash to poor families upon the fulfillment of conditions related to the education and health of their children. Even though CCTs aim to improve educational attainment, it is not clear whether Departments or Ministries of Education have internalized CCTs into their own sets of policies and whether that has had an impact on the quality of education being offered to low income students. Equally intriguing is the question of how conditional cash transfer programs have been politically sustained in so many countries, some of them having existed for over ten years. In order to explore that, this book will build upon a comparative study of three programs across the Americas: Opportunity NYC, Subsidios Condicionados a la Asistencia Escolar (Bogota, Colombia), and Bolsa Famila (Brazil). The book presents a detailed and non-official account on the NYC and Bogota programs and will analyze CCTs from both a political and education policy perspective.

Author : Adato, Michelle,Hoddinott, John
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780801894985

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Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin America by Adato, Michelle,Hoddinott, John Pdf

Conditional cash transfer programs (CCTs)—cash grants to poor families that are conditional on their participation in education, health, and nutrition services—have 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 : Pablo Ibarrarán,Nadin Medellín,Ferdinando Regalia,Marco Stampini
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1597822744

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How Conditional Cash Transfers Work by Pablo Ibarrarán,Nadin Medellín,Ferdinando Regalia,Marco Stampini Pdf

Author : Nazmul Chaudhury,Dilip Parajuli
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Adulthood
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Conditional Cash Transfers and Female Schooling by Nazmul Chaudhury,Dilip Parajuli Pdf

Instead of mean-tested conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs, some countries have implemented gender-targeted CCTs to explicitly address intra-household disparities in human capital investments. This study focuses on addressing the direct impact of a female school stipend program in Punjab, Pakistan: Did the intervention increase female enrollment in public schools? To address this question, the authors draw on data from the provincial school censuses of 2003 and 2005. They estimate the net growth in female enrollments in grades 6-8 in stipend eligible schools. Impact evaluation analysis, including difference-and-difference (DD), triple differencing (DDD), and regression-discontinuity design (RDD) indicate a modest but statistically significant impact of the intervention. The preferred estimator derived from a combination of DDD and RDD empirical strategies suggests that the average program impact between 2003 and 2005 was an increase of six female students per school in terms of absolute change and an increase of 9 percent in female enrollment in terms of relative change. A triangulation effort is also undertaken using two rounds of a nationally representative household survey before and after the intervention. Even though the surveys are not representative at the subprovincial level, the results corroborate evidence of the impact using school census data.

Author : Teresa Sacchet,Silvana Mariano,Cássia Maria Carloto
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000173246

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Women, Gender and Conditional Cash Transfers by Teresa Sacchet,Silvana Mariano,Cássia Maria Carloto Pdf

Conditional Cash Transfer Programs have been widely used throughout less developed countries to fight poverty and foster socioeconomic development. In Women, Gender and Conditional Cash Transfers, a multidisciplinary group of feminist scholars use survey data analysis, in-depth interviews, and ethnographic and archival research to explore the extent to which Bolsa Familia in Brazil contributes to women ́s autonomy and improves gender relations. Comprised of nine chapters, written by authors from different regions of Brazil, this book captures perspectives from across Brazil to explain these regional social inequalities and provide historical, and up-to-date, insights of this program from a feminist perspective. The authors are able to move beyond conventional feminist knowledge on CCTs, women and gender relations, through considering questions of gender raised in the specialized literature related to Bolsa Familia, and by addressing concerns of intersectional categories such as race, ethnicity, age and geographic location, Women, Gender and Conditional Cash Transfers will be of great interest not only to scholars of Latin American politics, but also to students of development policy, public policy and gender.

Author : Maria Elisa Balen,Martin Fotta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351173148

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Money from the Government in Latin America by Maria Elisa Balen,Martin Fotta Pdf

It has been almost two decades since conditional cash transfer programs first appeared on the agendas of multilateral agencies and politicians. Latin America has often been used as a testing ground for these programs, which consist of transfers of money to subsections of the population upon meeting certain conditions, such as sending their children to school or having them vaccinated. Money from the Government in Latin America takes a comparative view of the effects of this regular transfer of money, which comes with obligations, on rural communities. Drawing on a variety of data, taken from different disciplinary perspectives, these chapters help to build an understanding of the place of conditional cash transfer programsin rural families and households, in individuals’ aspirations and visions, in communities’ relationships to urban areas, and in the overall character of these rural societies. With case studies from Chile, Mexico, Peru, Brazil and Colombia, this book will interest scholars and researchers of Latin American anthropology, sociology, development, economics and politics.

Author : Alan de Brauw and John Hoddinott
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Must Conditional Cash Transfer Programs Be Conditioned to Be Effective? The Impact of Conditioning Transfers on School Enrollment in Mexico by Alan de Brauw and John Hoddinott Pdf

Author : Donald A. P. Bundy,Nilanthi de Silva,Susan Horton,Dean T. Jamison
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-20
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781464804397

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Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 8) by Donald A. P. Bundy,Nilanthi de Silva,Susan Horton,Dean T. Jamison Pdf

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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Computer network resources
ISBN : MINN:31951P00897009O

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The World Bank Research Observer by Anonim Pdf

Author : Simone Cecchini,Aldo Madariaga
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9211217571

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Conditional Cash Transfer Programmes by Simone Cecchini,Aldo Madariaga Pdf

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 : David Evans,Stephanie Hausladen,Katrina Kosec,Natasha Reese
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464801419

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Community-Based Conditional Cash Transfers in Tanzania by David Evans,Stephanie Hausladen,Katrina Kosec,Natasha Reese Pdf

The Government of Tanzania piloted a conditional cash transfer program in 2010, providing cash to poor households if they kept children in school and ensured that the elderly and children visited health facilities regularly. After 2.5 years, transfer recipients were healthier, had better education outcomes, and had more productive assets.

Author : Marito Garcia,Charity M. T. Moore
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821388983

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The Cash Dividend by Marito Garcia,Charity M. T. Moore Pdf

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 : Emmanuel Skoufias,Vincenzo Di Maro
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Incentives in industry
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Conditional Cash Transfers, Adult Work Incentives, and Poverty by Emmanuel Skoufias,Vincenzo Di Maro Pdf

"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.

Author : Paul Gertler,Sebastián Martínez,Marta Rubio-Codina
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Mexico
ISBN : 9782006081016

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Investing Cash Transfers to Raise Long Term Living Standards by Paul Gertler,Sebastián Martínez,Marta Rubio-Codina Pdf

"The authors test whether poor households use cash transfers to invest in income generating activities that they otherwise would not have been able to do. Using data from a controlled randomized experiment, they find that transfers from the Oportunidades program to households in rural Mexico resulted in increased investment in micro-enterprise and agricultural activities. For each peso transferred, beneficiary households used 88 cents to purchase consumption goods and services, and invested the rest. The investments improved the household's ability to generate income with an estimated rate of return of 17.55 percent, suggesting that these households were both liquidity and credit constrained. By investing transfers to raise income, beneficiary households were able to increase their consumption by 34 percent after five and a half years in the program. The results suggest that cash transfers to the poor may raise long-term living standards, which are maintained after program benefits end. "--World Bank web site.