Conditional cash transfer programmes and gender vulnerabilities in Latin America -

Reducing Child Poverty with Cash Transfers: A Sure Thing?

Children are disproportionately represented among the income-poor, many suffer from severe deprivation, and their poverty and vulnerability have cumulative and long-term consequences. This article provides a comparative examination of the poverty-reduction effectiveness of cash transfer programmes targeting children, focusing on three types of such programmes: the Child Support Grant in South A...

The Experience of Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin America and the Caribbean

This article discusses the experience of six conditional cash transfer programmes in Latin America, a model of social safety-nets which has grown to dominate the social protection sector in the region during the past decade. While they have been generally successful in terms of achieving their core objective, it is still not clear whether these programmes constitute the most cost-efficient or s...

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...

Effective poverty reduction and empowering women: a win-win situation? CCTs in Latin America

Conditional cash transfer programmes (CCTs) provide poor households with cash transfers on the condition that their children attend school and have regular health check-ups or similar measures that invest in their human capital. The fact that mothers are commonly chosen as recipients of these transfers has often led to the claim that CCTs, in addition to reducing poverty, also empower women and...

Cash Transfers and Gendered Risks and Vulnerabilities: Lessons from Latin America