Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) are programs that transfer cash, generally to poor households, on the condition that those households make pre specified investments in the human capital of their children. The report shows that there is good evidence that CCTs have improved the lives of poor people. Transfers generally have been well targeted to poor households, have raised consumption levels, and have reduced poverty, by a substantial amount in...
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2009/02/09
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2009/03/09
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Conditional cash transfers : reducing present and future poverty
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target social
Citation
Fiszbein, Ariel; Schady, Norbert; Ferreira, Fran.
Conditional cash transfers : reducing present and future poverty (English). A World Bank policy research report Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/914561468314712643