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From social safety net to social policy? The role of conditional cash transfers in welfare state development in Latin America

Bastagli, Francesca - 2009

During the 1990s, conditional cash transfers (CCTs) were adopted by countries across Latin America as central elements of their poverty reduction strategies. Alongside other developments in the area of social assistance, CCTs represent an opportunity for countries to develop an integrated and...

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Should Cash Transfers Be Confined to the Poor? Implications for Poverty and Inequality in Latin America

Acosta, Pablo A.; Leite, Phillippe; Rigolini, Jamele - 2011

choosing carefully categories of beneficiaries is almost as important as targeting the poor for achieving a high poverty and … inequality impact. Overall, the findings suggest that although in the Latin American context poverty targeting tends to deliver … higher poverty impacts, there are circumstances under which categorical targeting confined to geographical regions (sometimes …

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Complementary currencies for humanitarian aid

Ussher, Leanne; Ebert, Laura; Gómez, Georgina M.; … - In: Journal of Risk and Financial Management 14 (2021) 11, pp. 1-30

The humanitarian sector has gone through a major shift toward injection of cash into vulnerable communities as its core modality. On this trajectory toward direct currency injection, something new has happened: namely the empowerment of communities to create their own local currencies, a tool...

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Task force: development policy and strategies in East Asia by the case of chinese environment policy

Heberer, Thomas (contributor); … - 2009

This report approaches current domains of development and tension within China. It was elaborated by students in the frame of a 'Task Force Seminar' in cooperation with the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU). It addresses the issues of...

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From protection to production: The productive impacts of cash transfers and health insurance in Ghana

Tabe-Ojong, Martin Paul; Rukundo, Emmanuel Nshakira - 2024

We study the productive and psychological effects of LEAP 1000, a program integrating cash transfer and health insurance in Ghana. We assess impacts on livestock ownership and commercialisation, household investments (including savings) and time preferences as a measure of behavioural changes....

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Graduation from cash transfer programmes: Insights from Tanzania

Muangi, Winnie C. - 2024

This working paper examines the prevalence of humanitarian crises in Tanzania, their role in perpetuating poverty cycles, and how poverty graduation programmes mitigate these effects by building the resilience of ultra-poor households. We utilize a mixed-methods approach, comprising desk...

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The role of social assistance in African crises: A systematic literature review

Hirvonen, Kalle; Justino, Patricia; Oliveira, Rodrigo … - 2024

This systematic review examines the effectiveness of social assistance programmes in protecting households in Africa-a region highly vulnerable to climate change, conflict, and other shocks-during periods of crisis. Despite the significant increase in the number of these programmes over the past...

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Why Should We Integrate Income and Employment Support? A Conceptual and Empirical Investigation

Asenjo, Antonia; Escudero, Veronica; Liepmann, Hannah - 2022

The integration of active labour market policies within income support schemes – such as unemployment insurance and social assistance – has been a key component of social protection in high-income countries since the 1990s, with a rich literature reviewing its effects and implementation...

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The (very) long-run impacts of cash grants during a crisis

Fiala, Nathan; Rose, Julian; Aryemo, Filder; Peters, Jörg - 2022

The economic consequences of COVID-19 lockdowns were significant for poor households in the Global South. In this crisis period, we investigate the very long-run impacts of a randomized cash grant in Uganda on three pre-specified outcomes, including a heterogeneity analysis by gender. In 2008,...

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How to Best Fight Poverty: The Uneven Ex-post Effects of Conditional and Unconditional Cash Transfers on Labor Earnings

Aparicio Fenoll, Ainoa; Quaranta, Roberto - 2022

Programs to fight poverty aim at allowing individuals to support themselves ex-post, when they are not part of the program anymore. We compare the ex-post effects of conditional and unconditional cash transfer programs on labor income. We use an experiment where low-income individuals are...

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