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

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2009
    Since the early 1990s, conditional cash transfers (CCTs) have been adopted by countries across Latin America as central elements of their poverty reduction strategies. CCTs share three components in common: a cash transfer, a targeting mechanism, and conditionality.
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    Social protection in Africa: where next?

    Centre for Social Protection, 2010
    Has social protection in sub-Saharan Africa lost its way? Many countries now have social protection strategies. Emergency cash transfers have displaced or complemented food aid, some large-scale programmes have been introduced, others have been consolidated.
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    Electronic delivery of social cash transfers: lessons learned and opportunities for Africa

    Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2010
    Delivery of cash transfers typically involves a compromise between the cost of reaching recipients literally at the door of their homes, and the savings from providing them at a central point to which recipients must travel to receive their benefit.
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    Are Cash Transfers a Suitable Alternative to Energy and Food Subsidies?

    Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik / German Development Institute (GDI), 2008
    As rising energy and food prices reached their peak, subsidies have come under increased scrutiny as a means of supporting the poor. Not only do they put a severe strain on government budgets, more often than not they miss their target owing to leakages, corruption and price distortions. An alternative to subsidies may consist in conditional cash transfers to the poor.
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    Assessing the impact of poverty reduction policies and programmes

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
    Since the late 1990s, the international aid system has become more focused on tackling poverty. The poverty reduction agenda, with its central themes of economic growth, social development and good governance, has been adopted by all the major donors. But is it working for poor people?
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    Regional Evidence Building Agenda (REBA) Thematic Briefs

    Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2008
    This series of briefs provides a regional synthesis of findings of 12 thematic studies and 20 individual case studies of social transfer schemes undertaken by the Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme (RHVP) in southern Africa.
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    Evaluating the impact of Brazil’s Bolsa Família: Cash transfer programmes in comparative perspective

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2007
    Created in 2004, Brazil's Bolsa Familia programme consists of monthly cash transfers to poor households with children or pregnant women and unconditional transfers to extremely poor households. This paper examines how successfully and efficiently Bolsa Familia eases poverty and breaks its intergenerational transmission.
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    Guidelines for cash transfer programming

    International Committee of the Red Cross, 2006
    This document presents a guide to cash transfer programming. It looks to ascertain whether a cash programme is an appropriate response – and if appropriate a practical, step-by-step guide how to design and implement a cash programme is illustrated. The three sections in the paper discuss the following areas:
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    A regional multiplier approach to estimating the impact of cash transfers: the case of cash aid in rural Malawi

    Munich Re, 2007
    This paper analyses the impact of the Dowa Emergency Cash Transfer (DECT) programme in Dowa, Malawi, on the local economy. The programme consisted of cash transfers to households over a duration of five months. Transfers were adjusted to household size and changes in staple food prices. According to the authors, the programme was a success as:
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    The Malawi social cash transfer scheme: preliminary lessons learned

    United Nations Children's Fund, 2006
    Evidence from a pilot social cash transfer programme in Malawi indicates that it is a cost-effective, quick way to meet the basic needs of ultra-poor households whose members are unable to work.

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