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Conditional Cash Transfers

Reducing Present and Future Poverty

Author : Fiszbein, Ariel and Schady, Norbert et al.

Publisher: The World Bank (WB)

Place of Publish: USA, Washington D.C.

Year: 2009

Page Numbers: 33

Acc. No: 3248

Class No: 339.46 FIS

Category: Books & Reports

Subjects: Poverty

Type of Resource: Monograph

Languages: English

ISBN: 978-0-8213-7352-1

This report considers the impact that Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) have had on current poverty, education, health, and nutrition outcomes. It draws heavily on a large number of carefully constructed impact evaluations of CCT programs. The CCT programs studied in this report span a range of low- and middle- income countries; large and small programmes; and those that work at local, regional, and national levels. Although there are important differences between countries and regions in how CCTs are used, they all share one defining characteristic: they transfer cash while asking beneficiaries to make pre-specified investments in child education and health.