The trade-off between targeting and coverage has always been something of a quandary for progressive cash transfers, particularly those that are not entitlements. Undue inclusion errors mean that families or individuals whose need is not so great are being paid at the expense of either taxpayers...

This issue of Poverty in Focus brings a set of articles that discuss some of the recent developments and innovations in the social protection area in developing countries. Most invited authors were presenters at the Policy Dialogue, Expert Workshop and South-South Learning Event organised by...

Para discutir o futuro do Programa Bolsa Família (PBF), é necessário reconhecer sua natureza dupla ? qual seja, um programa de renda mínima para famílias que vivem em extrema pobreza e um subsídio focalizado para famílias pobres com crianças (ou gestantes).

Do CCTs Lessen the Impact of the Current Economic Crisis? Yes, but...

The Bolsa Familia Programme (PBF) is a conditional cash transfer (CCT) programme which is aimed at guaranteeing a minimum level of income to poor families and at the same time promoting access to education and health services by beneficiary children, and to social assistance more generally by...

Social transfers are increasingly seen as a key tool in Eastern and Southern Africa to combat the triple threat of chronic poverty, hunger and HIV/AIDS. Targeting effectiveness in defining which groups are eligible and how these groups are identified is fundamental to the impact of these...

Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes have been under close scrutiny with regard to their impacts on intermediate outcomes such as increase in school attendance, improved nutrition, higher immunization rates and attendance to at pre- and postnatal care and health checks for children. But it...

The objective of this study is to assess the implications of Brazil?s conditional cash transfer programme, the "Bolsa Familia" Programme (hereinafter the ?PBF?), for the Decent Work Agenda. The Decent Work Agenda first emerged in a report by the Director-General of the ILO in June 1999. Decent...