Can Cash Transfer Programmes Have ‘Transformative’ Effects?

Conditional cash transfer programmes and gender vulnerabilities in Latin America -

Unintended Labour Supply Effects of Cash Transfer Programmes: Evidence from South Africa’s Old Age Pension

Employing South Africa’s first nationally representative panel data set, I find that having old age pension recipients in the household adversely affects employment outcomes of prime-aged adults both by reducing the probability that the unemployed find work and by increasing the likelihood that the previously employed lose their job. These effects seems to operate through the income mechanism: ...

Role of cash in conditional cash transfer programmes for child health, growth, and development: an analysis of Mexico's Oportunidades.

BACKGROUND Many governments have implemented conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes with the goal of improving options for poor families through interventions in health, nutrition, and education. Families enrolled in CCT programmes receive cash in exchange for complying with certain conditions: preventive health requirements and nutrition supplementation, education, and monitoring designed ...

Evaluating the Impact of Brazil’s Bolsa Família: Cash Transfer Programmes in Comparative Perspective

allege that it has a negative impact on labour force participation. However, the participation rate of [beneficiary] adults was, in fact, 2.6 percentage points higher, and 4.3 percentage points higher for women." The text and data in this publication may be reproduced as long as the source is cited. Reproductions for commercial purposes are forbidden. The International Poverty Centre's Evaluati...

Conditional Cash Transfer Programmes and Gender Vulnerabilities: Case Studies of Brazil, Chile and Colombia

This paper analyses Brazilian, Chilean and Colombian experiences with conditional cash transfer programmes and how they have helped tackle gendered economic and social vulnerabilities. It is argued that Bolsa Família, Chile Solidario and Familias en Acción should be analysed within the broader social protection strategies in which they are meant to be components. Such an approach can help gener...