Abstract In several Latin American countries, conditional cash transfer programmes are a proven means of alleviating poverty in the short term and promoting education children from disadvantaged families longer run. While effectiveness Brazilian Bolsa Família for children’s outcomes up to 15 years age has been widely documented, its contribution promotion students secondary school not fully exp...

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BACKGROUND Cash transfer interventions are forms of social protection based on the provision of cash to vulnerable households with the aim of reduce risk, vulnerability, chronic poverty and improve human capital. Such interventions are already an integral part of the response to HIV/AIDS in some settings and have recently been identified as a core element of World Health Organization's End TB S...

We propose a scenario based optimization framework for solving the cash flow matching problem where the time horizon of the liabilities is longer than the maturities of available bonds and the interest rates are uncertain. Standard interest rate models can be used for scenarios generation within this framework. The optimal portfolio is found by minimizing the cost at a specific level of shortfa...

BACKGROUND Demand-side strategies could contribute to achieving high and timely vaccine coverage in rural Africa, but require platforms to deliver either messages or conditional cash transfers (CCTs). We studied the feasibility of using short message services (SMS) reminders and mobile phone-based conditional cash transfers (CCTs) to reach parents in rural Western Kenya. METHODS In a Health a...

As of 2007, 29 developing countries had some type of Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program in place, with many others planning or piloting one. However, the evidence base needed by a government to decide how to design a new CCT program is severely limited in a number of critical dimensions. We present one-year schooling impacts from a CCT experiment among teenage girls and young women in Mala...