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    Spotlight on publications: citizen oversight of conditional cash transfer programmes

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2012
    Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) – a Latin American innovation – have now gained fame around the world for their effectiveness in promoting human development, fighting poverty and reducing inequality.
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    Spotlight on publications: conditional cash transfers

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2011
    Latin American countries pioneered the use of Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) to achieve important impacts in human development indicators. This selection of publications highlights key resources documenting and analysing important aspects of the Latin American CCT experience.
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    Korea's labor and social security policy responses during the Korean crisis of 1998-2000

    Korea Development Institute, 2010
    This volume explains Korea’s labour and social security policy responses during the Financial Crisis period from 1998 to 2000. The crisis was a financial one in nature: Korea was enveloped by the crisis because it’s foreign reserves needed to repay the impending foreign loans were depleted, and because Korean companies were not productive enough compared to their liabilities.
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    Social cash transfers and financial inclusion: evidence from four countries

    Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest, 2012
    In a number of countries, two separate, but potentially complementary policy agendas have emerged in the past five years: governments have sought to increase the use of electronic means for government payments and to promote greater financial inclusion.
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    Innovative features in conditional cash transfers: an impact evaluation of Chile Solidario on households and children

    UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2012
    Chile Solidario is an avant garde CCT in the Latin American context, introducing innovative features which are aimed at specifically addressing the multidimensional nature of poverty, considered not only as a consequence of the lack of income, but also as a result of low levels of human and social capital, and the vulnerability of a household to shocks.
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    Informality and inclusive growth

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2015
    This paper is a working document, and the first stage in the conduct of a joint research in the topic of informality and inclusive growth. The research will study the cases of Colombia and South Africa and analyse to what extent these lessons can be applied to other countries in Africa and Latin America.
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    5 years in Juntos: new evidence on the Program’s short and long-term impacts

    Centro de Investigaciones Sociólogicas Económicas Políticas y Antropológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2013
    his study presents results from a quantitative impact evaluation of the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programme, Juntos, in Peru. Using instrumental variable techniques, it estimates the overall impact of Juntos five years after its initial rollout and explores the differential impacts among beneficiaries according to the length of time they spent in the programme.
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    Conditions for success in implementing CCT programs: lessons for Asia from Latin America and the Caribbean

    Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo / Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), 2014
    Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs have become the main social assistance interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), reaching 129 million individuals in 18 countries in 2010.
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    FIELD Brief 18: Increasing impact with savings-linked conditional cash transfers – experiences from Latin America

    microLINKS,, 2012
    Government social protection programs in 30 countries provide conditional cash transfers (CCTs) to economically disadvantaged families who meet certain requirements (conditions), such as sending their children to school regularly, participating in nutrition programs, and visiting health clinics.
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    Alternative means testing options Using CBMS

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2006
    The Philhealth Indigent Program aims to provide health insurance privileges to the marginalised sector of Philippine society. Beneficiaries are identified through a survey called CBIS-MBN, using the Family Data Survey Form (FDSF), conducted by the local Social Welfare Development Office.

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