Government approach to poverty through Conditional Cash Transfer Programs

Conditional Cash Transfer Programs: A "Magic Bullet" for Reducing Poverty?

In 1997, the Government of Mexico introduced a conditional cash transfer (CCT) program called Programa de Educación, Salud, y Alimentación (Progresa), providing assistance to about 300,000 extremely poor households. The essential premise of a CCT program is a cash transfer to households, conditioned on their participation in health, nutrition, and education services. Ten years later, Progresa, ...

Making Conditional Cash Transfer Programs More Efficient

Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs have become extensively used to induce poor parents to increase their investments in the human capital of their children. The condition on school attendance and use of health facilities transforms the transfer into a price effect on the condition. Justification for the condition is to reduce market failures due to positive externalities from investments ...

How school quality affects the success of a conditional cash transfer program Conditional cash transfer programs

Over the past decade, conditional cash transfer programs have been widely adopted in lowerand middle-income countries. Nearly every Latin American country has such a program, and pilot programs are being implemented in countries around the world, including locations in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and most recently, North America. There has been relatively consistent evidence that these prog...

Must Conditional Cash Transfer Programs Be Conditioned to Be Effective?

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The effects of conditional cash transfer programs on poverty reduction, human capital accumulation and wellbeing