In a comparatively short period of time, programmes providing direct transfers in cash and in kind to households in poverty have expanded to reach between 740 million and 1 billion people in the South. The book Social Assistance in Developing Countries provides a comprehensive account of the...

The Bolsa Família Programme, the biggest cash transfer programme of its kind, is now 10 years old. It is only natural that we should start to think about its future. When speculating about the programme?s near future, two distinct visions come to mind. In the first, by transferring cash to...

Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programmes have been extensively used by many governments worldwide with the dual purpose of alleviating poverty in the short term and increasing investment in human capital for children from poor families, so that they can achieve better living conditions in the...

Brazilian social protection programmes have had consistent effects in reducing poverty and inequality among their respective vulnerable groups: children, adolescents and pregnant and lactating women. In 2011, President-elect Rousseff launched Plano Brasil Sem Miséria (PBSM ? Brazil without...

One Pager No. 215 ? The Challenge of Rapid Ageing: Development of Social Pensions in Asia By Sri W. Handayani, Principal Social Development Specialist, Asian Development Bank Ageing populations are a global phenomenon with potentially significant consequences and repercussions for health care,...

Brazil has been making significant advances in its social protection system in the last 10 years. These advances result from improvements made possible through the contributory pillar, such as social security, through non-contributory pillars, and through the coordination of contributory and...

Over the last decade and a half, conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes?together with other non-contributory social protection programmes such as social pensions ? have become the main gateway into social protection systems for poor and vulnerable populations in Latin America and the...

In the evaluation of conditional or unconditional cash transfer programmes, research that examines their effects on children?s and adolescents? school performance and participation in the labour market figures prominently. The programme effect is important because such programmes are designed...

This study analyses the impact of the conditional cash transfer programme, Programa Bolsa Família, on the occupational composition of the Brazilian labour market. The methodology relies on a discontinuity in the programme eligibility rule regarding children?s age to attain the identification of...

This text attempts to estimate the impacts of the Programa Bolsa Família on grade repetition, using matched data from the Single Registry (Cadastro Único, or CadÚnico), the Attendance Project and annual School Census. The authors use three approaches: i) comparing the results for poor...