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...

We assess the non-contributory cash transfer systems in 17 Latin American and Caribbean countries to identify factors that keep them from reducing poverty and inequality. To perform this assessment, we analyze three dimensions of size (number of beneficiaries, size of transfer per beneficiary,...

Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) are widely used antipoverty measures in Latin America, and many such programs include indigenous beneficiaries. However, concerns have been raised that the indigenous poor, who have historically been marginalized, may not benefit from CCTs as much as the...

This paper starts with an evaluation of the most important CCTs in Latin America. It will then move to discuss the nature and limited impact of Chile Solidario, followed by a discussion of poverty and vulnerability in Chile, and the Ethical Wage approach. The paper concludes by questioning the...

This article discusses the experience of six conditional cash transfer programmes in Latin America, a model of social safety-nets which has grown to dominate the social protection sector in the region during the past decade. While they have been generally successful in terms of achieving their...