Conditional cash transfers : reducing present and future poverty (English)

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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Fiszbein, Ariel;

Schady, Norbert;

Ferreira, Fran;
Document Date
2009/02/09
Document Type
Publication
Report Number
47603
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
World,
Region
Other,
Disclosure Date
2009/03/09
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
Doc Name
Conditional cash transfers : reducing present and future poverty
Keywords
target social

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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

Conditional cash transfers : reducing present and future poverty (English)

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