Publication: A New Approach to Social Assistance: Latin America’s Experience with Conditional Cash Transfer Programs
Date
2004-01
ISSN
Published
2004-01
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Abstract
Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) are an
innovative and increasingly popular approach to social
assistance. They provide money to poor families contingent
upon certain behavior, usually investments in human capital
such as keeping children in school or taking them to health
centers on a regular basis. These programs are perhaps the
clearest policy manifestation of a new line of thinking on
the long-term role of social assistance programs. Not only
are they instruments for short-term poverty alleviation, but
they also encompass longer-term economic growth and human
capital development objectives. They have been adopted
internationally and in several countries they have been
scaled up to become integral components of poverty
alleviation strategies.
Citation
“Rawlings, Laura B.. 2004. A New Approach to Social Assistance: Latin America’s Experience with Conditional Cash Transfer Programs. Social Safety Nets Primer Notes; No. 15. © World Bank, Washington, DC. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/publication/9e6c7f27-b479-5c51-99a1-3a3c83c4843b License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”