poverty in the global South. These programmes currently reach more than 860 million people worldwide. This paper focuses on … three policy questions: first, do programme objectives address chronic poverty? Second, are programme design features – the … social transfers encourages strong expectations on its potential role in addressing long-term poverty, but that this can only …

This paper considers the impact of cash transfer programmes for the old in Brazil and South Africa on poverty among … unconditional estimates of the poverty reduction capacity of these programmes. The paper finds that non-contributory pensions have a … measurable and significant impact upon poverty reduction and poverty prevention in the two countries studied …

The paper discusses whether vulnerability generates poverty traps. It contains a review of models of poverty traps and … to approach the linkages between vulnerability and persistent poverty, and a stronger, and comparative, body of evidence … are needed to make the case that risk and vulnerability are significant factors behind poverty traps. The research planned …

, Nicaragua, Panama, Argentina, and the Dominican Republic. In South Asia, ’s Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction … incidence of poverty; lower capacity in terms of designing, delivering, and evaluating transfers schemes; and less developed … society, are reluctant to innovate, pilots provide an opportunity to enable learning from new approaches to poverty and …