Cash transfers, social protection and poverty reduction

Cash Transfers, Social Protection and Poverty Reduction (Draft) - - Discussion papers

Social Protection and Cash Transfers

©) was established in 1975 to identify and analyze alternative national and international strategies and policies for meeting food needs of the developing world on a sustainable basis, with particular emphasis on low-income countries and on the poorer groups in those countries. While the research effort is geared to the precise objective of contributing to the reduction of hunger and malnutriti...

Parent Altruism, Cash Transfers and Child Poverty

This paper investigates the contemporary sharing of household resources between parents and co-resident children, motivated by the increasing popularity of cash transfers targeted at children, and limited evidence of their efficacy. It argues that this provides information on parental altruism which, though commonly assumed, has been challenged in recent research. The main finding is that the w...

Cash Transfers to Reduce Children ’ s Poverty

This briefing note provides an overview of the role of cash transfers in the reduction of children's poverty in low and middle income countries. Drawing on existing literature and programme experiences, the note outlines the following key points: • There has been an increasing emphasis on (targeted) cash transfers as a key instrument to reduce poverty, deprivation and vulnerability of children ...

Cash Transfers as a Strategy for Poverty Reduction: A critical assessment

In the past decade, cash transfers have been gaining in popularity as a preferred strategy for poverty reduction in different parts of the world. Some have even argued that it can become the solution to the problem of poverty. Some analysts have described cash transfers as not only “the most necessary, obvious and imperative strategy for poverty alle-viation” but even suggested “that these shou...