impact of CCTs on consumption poverty and employment -- The impact of CCT programs on the accumulation of human capital … -- Conditional cash transfers : policy and design options …

Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs aim to reduce poverty by making welfare programs conditional upon the … whereby poverty is transmitted from one generation to another. Do these and other claims make sense? Are they supported by …

poverty, by a substantial amount in some countries. Offsetting adjustments that could have blunted the impact of transfers … transfers to the poor if they are linked to efforts to overcome poverty in the long term, particularly when the efforts involve …

the international poverty line. In order to preserve the integrity of the goalposts for international targets such as the … Sustainable Development Goals and the World Bank's twin goals, the new poverty line was chosen so as to preserve the definition … designed to preserve real purchasing power in poor countries, the revisions lead to relatively small changes in global poverty …

Brazil's slow pace of poverty reduction over the last two decades reflects both low growth and a low growth elasticity … of poverty reduction. Using GDP data disaggregated by state and sector for a twenty-year period, this paper finds … considerable variation in the poverty-reducing effectiveness of growth-across sectors, across space, and over time. Growth in the …

Brazil's slow pace of poverty reduction over the last two decades reflects both low growth and a low growth elasticity … of poverty reduction. Using GDP data disaggregated by state and sector for a twenty-year period, this paper finds … considerable variation in the poverty-reducing effectiveness of growth - across sectors, across space, and over time. Growth in the …