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Conditional Cash Transfers : Reducing Present and Future Poverty
Fonte: Washington, DC: World Bank
Publicador: Washington, DC: World Bank
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The report shows that there is good
evidence that conditional cash transfers (CCTs) have
improved the lives of poor people. Transfers generally have
been well targeted to poor households, have raised
consumption levels, and have reduced poverty, by a
substantial amount in some countries. Offsetting adjustments
that could have blunted the impact of transfers, such as
reductions in the labor market participation of
beneficiaries, have been relatively modest. Moreover, CCT
programs often have provided an entry point to reforming
badly targeted subsidies and upgrading the quality of safety
nets. The report thus argues that CCTs have been an
effective way to redistribute income to the poor, while
recognizing that even the best-designed and best-managed
program cannot fulfill all of the needs of a comprehensive
social protection system. CCTs therefore need to be
complemented with other interventions, such as workfare or
employment programs and social pensions. The report also
considers the rationale for conditioning the transfers on
the use of specific health and education services by program
beneficiaries. Conditions can be justified if households are
under investing in the human capital of their children...
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The Impacts of Cash and In-Kind Transfers on Consumption and Labor Supply : Experimental Evidence from Rural Mexico
Fonte: Washington, DC: World Bank
Publicador: Washington, DC: World Bank
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The authors use the unique experimental
design of the Food Support Program (Programa Apoyo
Alimentario) to analyze in-kind and cash transfers in the
poor rural areas of southern states of Mexico. They compare
the impacts of monthly in-kind and cash transfers of
equivalent value (mean share 11.5 percent of pre-program
consumption) on household welfare as measured by food and
total consumption, adult labor supply, and poverty. The
results show that approximately two years later the transfer
has a large and positive impact on total and food
consumption. There are no differences in the size of the
effect of transfer in cash versus transfers in-kind on
consumption. The transfer, irrespective of type, does not
affect overall participation in labor market activities but
induces beneficiary households to switch their labor
allocation from agricultural to nonagricultural activities.
The analysis finds that the program leads to a significant
reduction in poverty. Overall, the findings suggest that the
Food Support Program intervention is able to relax the
binding liquidity constraints faced by poor agricultural
households...
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Are Cash Transfers Made to Women Spent Like Other Sources of Income?
Fonte: World Bank, Washington, DC
Publicador: World Bank, Washington, DC
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How cash transfers made to women are
used has important implications for models of household
behavior and for the design of social programs. In this
paper, the authors use the randomized introduction of an
unconditional cash transfer to poor women in rural Ecuador
to analyze the effect of transfers on the food Engel curve.
There are two main findings. First, the authors show that
households randomly assigned to receive Bono de Desarrollo
Humano (BDH) transfers have a significantly higher food
share in expenditures than those that were randomly assigned
to the control group. Second, they show that the rising food
share among BDH beneficiaries is found among households that
have both adult males and females, but not among households
that only have adult females. Bargaining power between men
and women is likely to be important in mixed-adult
households, but not among female-only households, where
there are no men to bargain with. Finally, the authors show
that within mixed-adult households, program effects are only
significant in households in which the initial bargaining
capacity of women was likely to be weak. This pattern of
results is consistent with an increase in the bargaining
power of women in households that received BDH transfers.
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Assisting the Poor with Cash : Design and Implementation of Social Transfer Programs
Fonte: World Bank, Washington, DC
Publicador: World Bank, Washington, DC
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Cash transfers can be defined as the
provision of assistance in the form of cash to the poor or
those who face a probable risk, in the absence of the
transfer, of falling into poverty. Cash transfers, broadly
defined, can be given in the form of social assistance,
insurance, near-cash tax benefits, and private transfers.
This note focuses on government programs, recognizing that
private transfers and public programs serve multiple
objectives, of which social safety net protection is just one.
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Incentivising Safe Sex : A Randomised Trial of Conditional Cash Transfers for HIV and Sexually Transmitted Infection Prevention in Rural Tanzania
Fonte: Banco Mundial
Publicador: Banco Mundial
Tipo: Artigo de Revista Científica
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#Prevention strategies#Conditional cash transfers#HIV/AIDS epidemic#Unsafe sex#Health check-ups for children#Risky sexual behavior#Sexually-transmitted infections#STIs#HIV#nucleic acid amplification tests
Objective The authors evaluated the use of conditional cash transfers as an HIV and sexually transmitted infection prevention strategy to incentivise safe sex.
Design An unblinded, individually randomised and controlled trial.
Setting 10 villages within the Kilombero/Ulanga districts of the Ifakara Health and Demographic Surveillance System in rural south-west Tanzania.
Participants The authors enrolled 2399 participants, aged 18–30 years, including adult spouses.
Interventions Participants were randomly assigned to either a control arm (n=1124) or one of two intervention arms: low-value conditional cash transfer (eligible for $10 per testing round, n=660) and high-value conditional cash transfer (eligible for $20 per testing round, n=615). The authors tested participants every 4 months over a 12-month period for the presence of common sexually transmitted infections. In the intervention arms, conditional cash transfer payments were tied to negative sexually transmitted infection test results. Anyone testing positive for a sexually transmitted infection was offered free treatment, and all received counselling.
Main outcome measures The primary study end point was combined prevalence of the four sexually transmitted infections...
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Conditional Cash Transfers and the Equity-Efficiency Debate
Fonte: World Bank, Washington, D.C.
Publicador: World Bank, Washington, D.C.
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During the past decade, the use of
conditional cash transfers to increase investment in human
capital has generated considerable excitement in both
research and policy forums. Such schemes are being
increasingly adopted in a number of contexts and countries
to improve outcomes in health, education, and child labor as
they aim to balance the goals of current and future poverty
reduction. In this paper, the authors define any scheme
requiring a specified course of action in order to receive a
benefit as a conditional cash transfer. This definition
includes cash transfers based on human capital investments,
but is sufficiently broad to encompass other schemes such as
work-fare programs or consumption transfers. The authors
examine the rationales behind, the problems with, and the
tradeoffs inherent to conditional cash transfer programs.
They discuss two main concerns: low participation and
fungibility. Low participation refers to the problem of
program uptake. If individuals do not participate in the
program...
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The Poverty Impacts of Cash and In-Kind Transfers : Experimental Evidence from Rural Mexico
Fonte: Taylor and Francis
Publicador: Taylor and Francis
Tipo: Artigo de Revista Científica
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#labor supply#cash transfers#consumption#difference-in-differences#in-kind transfers#randomized design#poverty#PAL
The unique experimental design of the Food Support Programme (Programa de Apoyo Alimentario) is used to analyse in-kind and cash transfers in the poor rural areas of southern states of Mexico. The intent-to-treat effect on poverty of cash transfers of real value 25 per cent less than the market value of in-kind transfers is identical to that of in-kind transfers. Potential explanations of this result are investigated by looking into the differences in impacts of in-kind and cash transfers on food consumption and non-food expenditures and on the allocation of family labour between agricultural and non-agricultural activities. Both in-kind and cash transfers have identically large positive impacts on food consumption. Non-food expenditures are also higher in the localities with cash transfers, whereas they remain unaffected in the localities with in-kind transfers. Both kinds of transfers have a significant impact on the time allocation of males (and not females) who switch from agricultural to non-agricultural activities. But, the availability of cash transfers has a significantly higher marginal effect than in-kind transfers on the shift towards non-agricultural activities. Overall, the findings suggest that cash transfers may be better able than in-kind transfers at mitigating the impact of market imperfections...
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Conditional, Unconditional and Everything in Between : A Systematic Review of the Effects of Cash Transfer Programs on Schooling Outcomes
Fonte: Taylor and Francis
Publicador: Taylor and Francis
Tipo: Artigo de Revista Científica
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#cash transfers#education#conditionality#systematic review#meta-analysis#conditional cash transfers#unconditional cash transfers#enrollment#education test scores
Cash transfer programmes are a popular social protection tool in developing countries that aim, among other things, to improve education outcomes in developing countries. The debate over whether these programmes should include conditions has been at the forefront of recent policy discussions. This systematic review aims to complement the existing evidence on the effectiveness of these programmes in improving schooling outcomes and help inform the debate surrounding the design of cash transfer programmes. Using data from 75 reports that cover 35 different studies, the authors find that both conditional cash transfers (CCTs) and unconditional cash transfers (UCTs) improve the odds of being enrolled in and attending school compared to no cash transfer programme. The effect sizes for enrolment and attendance are always larger for CCTs compared to UCTs, but the difference is not statistically significant. When programmes are categorised as having no schooling conditions, having some conditions with minimal monitoring and enforcement and having explicit conditions that are monitored and enforced, a much clearer pattern emerges whereby programmes that are explicitly conditional, monitor compliance and penalise non-compliance have substantively larger effects (60% improvement in odds of enrolment). Unlike enrolment and attendance...
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Cash Transfers and Temptation Goods : A Review of Global Evidence
Fonte: World Bank, Washington, DC
Publicador: World Bank, Washington, DC
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Cash transfers have been demonstrated to
improve education and health outcomes and alleviate poverty
in various contexts. However, policy makers and others often
express concern that poor households will use transfers to
buy alcohol, tobacco, or other "temptation goods."
The income effect of transfers will increase expenditures if
alcohol and tobacco are normal goods, but this may be offset
by other effects, including the substitution effect, the
effect of social messaging about the appropriate use of
transfers, and the effect of shifting dynamics in
intra-household bargaining. The net effect is ambiguous.
This paper reviews 19 studies with quantitative evidence on
the impact of cash transfers on temptation goods, as well as
11 studies that surveyed the number of respondents who
reported they used transfers for temptation goods. Almost
without exception, studies find either no significant impact
or a significant negative impact of transfers on temptation
goods. In the only (two, non-experimental) studies with
positive significant impacts...
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Can Conditional Cash Transfers Improve Education and Nutrition Outcomes for Poor Children in Bangladesh? Evidence from a Pilot Project
Fonte: World Bank Group, Washington, DC
Publicador: World Bank Group, Washington, DC
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There is an increasing recognition that
investment in human development at an earlier age can have a
significant impact on the lifetime earnings capacity of an
individual. This notion is the basis for the popularity of
conditional cash transfer programs to help boost child
health and education outcomes. The evidence on the impact of
conditional cash transfers on health and education outcomes,
however, is mixed. This paper uses panel data from a pilot
project and evaluates the impact of conditional cash
transfers on consumption, education, and nutrition outcomes
among poor rural families in Bangladesh. Given
implementation challenges the intervention was not able to
improve school attendance. However the analysis shows that
the pilot had a significant impact on the incidence of
wasting among children who were 10-22 months old when the
program started, reducing the share of children with
weight-for-height below two standard deviations from the
World Health Organization benchmark by 40 percent. The pilot
was also able to improve nutrition knowledge: there was a
significant increase in the proportion of beneficiary
mothers who knew about the importance of exclusively
breastfeeding infants until the age of six months. The
results also suggest a significant positive impact on food
consumption...
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The Experience of Cash Transfers in Myanmar
Fonte: World Bank, Washington, DC
Publicador: World Bank, Washington, DC
Tipo: Relatório
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Cash is an appropriate instrument to
provide assistance to poor and vulnerable households in most
contexts in Myanmar. Cash transfers (CTs) have the potential
to help poor and vulnerable householdsmeet basic needs and
encourage investments in human capital accumulation.
Building on existing programs such as the stipends program
and testing CTs with relatively simple design and
implementation arrangements can be a viable option in the
short term.
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Comparing Cash and Voucher Transfers in a Humanitarian Context; Evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo
Fonte: World Bank, Washington, DC
Publicador: World Bank, Washington, DC
Tipo: Working Paper; Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper; Publications & Research
ENGLISH; EN_US
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Despite recent calls in support of cash
transfers, there is little rigorous evidence of the relative
impacts of cash versus in-kind transfers, especially in
humanitarian contexts, where a majority of such programs
take place. This paper uses data from a randomized
experiment in the Democratic Republic of Congo to assess the
relative impacts and costs of equivalently valued cash and
voucher transfers. The voucher program distorted households’
purchases along both the extensive and intensive margin as
compared with unconstrained cash households. Yet there were
no differences in food consumption or other measures of
well-being, in part due to the fact that voucher households
were able to resell part of what they purchased. As there
were no significant benefits to vouchers, cash transfers
were the more cost effective modality for both the
implementing agency and program recipients in this context.
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Can Cash Transfers Help Children Stay Healthy?
Fonte: Washington, DC
Publicador: Washington, DC
Tipo: Publications & Research :: Brief; Publications & Research
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#AGED#BASIC HEALTH CARE#CASH TRANSFER PROGRAMS#CASH TRANSFERS#CLINICS#FAMILIES#HEALTH CARE#HEALTH CARE PROVIDER#HEALTH CLINICS#HEALTH SERVICES#HEALTH SYSTEM
Societies have a stake in ensuring that
their youngest populations receive regular health check-ups
and proper medical care when needed. Children whose health
is protected and nurtured have a better chance of enrolling
in school, learning, and growing to be healthy and
productive adults, which in turns helps a country's
development. So how can policymakers and development experts
promote this? Increasingly, cash transfers are being used to
encourage families to take basic preventive care measures,
including regular health care visits for babies and young
children and enrolling children in school. The transfers may
be conditional, meaning families get the money if they take
children for regular check-ups or enroll them in school; or
they can be unconditional, in which case families receive
the money without any strings attached, under the assumption
that the extra cash will give parents the financial
flexibility to ensure proper health visits and schooling.
Cash transfers are being used across the world to encourage
better use of education and health services by offering
economic incentives that can significantly boost the incomes
of poor households. Transfer programs can be conditional or
unconditional...
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Conditional Cash Transfers, Schooling, and Child Labor : Micro-Simulating Brazil's Bolsa Escola Program
Fonte: Washington, DC: World Bank
Publicador: Washington, DC: World Bank
Tipo: Journal Article; Publications & Research :: Journal Article; Publications & Research
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A growing number of developing economies
are providing cash transfers to poor people that require
certain behaviors on their part, such as attending school or
regularly visiting health care facilities. A simple ex ante
methodology is proposed for evaluating such programs and
used to assess the bolsa escola program in Brazil. The
results suggest that about 60 percent of poor 10- to
15-year-olds not in school enroll in response to the
program. The program reduces the incidence of poverty by
only a little more than one percentage point, however, and
the Gini coefficient falls just half a point. Results are
better for measures more sensitive to the bottom of the
distribution, but the effect is never large.
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Cash Transfers and Child Labor
Fonte: World Bank, Washington, DC
Publicador: World Bank, Washington, DC
Tipo: Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper; Publications & Research
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Cash transfer programs are widely used
in settings where child labor is prevalent. Although many of
these programs are explicitly implemented to improve
children's welfare, in theory their impact on child
labor is undetermined. This paper systematically reviews the
empirical evidence on the impact of cash transfers,
conditional and unconditional, on child labor. The authors
find no evidence that cash transfer interventions increase
child labor in practice. On the contrary, there is broad
evidence that conditional and unconditional cash transfers
lower both children's participation in child labor and
hours worked and cushion the effect of economic shocks that
may lead households to use child labor as a coping strategy.
Boys experience particularly strong decreases in economic
activities, girls in household chores. The findings
underline the usefulness of cash transfers as a relatively
safe policy instrument to improve child welfare, but also
point to knowledge gaps, for instance regarding the
interplay between cash transfers and other interventions...
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Cash Transfers in an Epidemic Context : The Interaction of Formal and Informal Support in Rural Malawi
Fonte: Banco Mundial
Publicador: Banco Mundial
Tipo: Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
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This paper investigates the short-run
consumption expenditure dynamics and the interaction of
public and private arrangements of ultra-poor and
labor-constrained households in Malawi using an original
dataset from the Mchinjii social cash transfer pilot project
(one of the first experiments of social protection policies
based on unconditional cash transfers in Sub-Saharan
Africa). The authors exploit the unique source of exogenous
variation provided by the randomized component of the
program in order to isolate the effect of cash transfers on
consumption expenditures as well as the net crowding out
effect of cash transfers on private arrangements. They find
a statistically significant reduction effect on the level of
consumption expenditures for those households receiving cash
transfers, thus leading to the rejection of the perfect risk
sharing hypothesis. Moreover, by looking at the effects of
cash transfers on private arrangements in a context
characterized by imperfect enforceability of contracts and
by a social fabric heavily compromised by high HIV/AIDS
rates...
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Our Daily Bread : What is the Evidence on Comparing Cash versus Food Transfers?
Fonte: World Bank Group, Washington, DC
Publicador: World Bank Group, Washington, DC
Tipo: Publications & Research :: Working Paper
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This paper reviews key issues in the
'cash versus food' debate, including as they
relate to political economy, theory, evidence, and practice.
In doing so, it benefited from a new generation of 12 impact
evaluations deliberately comparing alternative transfer
modalities. Findings show that differences in effectiveness
vary by indicator, although they tend to be moderate on
average. In some cases differences are more marked (i.e.,
food consumption and calorie availability), but in most
instances they are not statistically significant. In
general, transfers' performance and their difference
seem a function of the organic and fluid interactions among
factors like the profile and 'initial conditions'
of beneficiaries, the capacity of local markets, and program
objectives and design. Costs associated with cash transfers
and vouchers tend to be substantially lower relative to
food. Yet methods for cost-effectiveness analysis vary and
need to be more standardized and nuanced. The reviewed
evaluations are helping to shift the debate from one shaped
by ideology...
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The Impact of Cash Transfers on School Enrollment : Evidence from Ecuador
Fonte: World Bank, Washington, DC
Publicador: World Bank, Washington, DC
Tipo: Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper; Publications & Research
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This paper presents evidence about the
impact on school enrollment of a program in Ecuador that
gives cash transfers to the 40 percent poorest families. The
evaluation design consists of a randomized experiment for
families around the first quintile of the poverty index and
of a regression discontinuity design for families around the
second quintile of this index, which is the program's
eligibility threshold. This allows us to compare results
from two different credible identification methods, and to
investigate whether the impact varies with families'
poverty level. Around the first quintile of the poverty
index the impact is positive while it is equal to zero
around the second quintile. This suggests that for the
poorest families the program lifts a credit constraint while
this is not the case for families close to the eligibility threshold.
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Conditional Cash Transfers, Adult Work Incentives, and Poverty
Fonte: World Bank, Washington, DC
Publicador: World Bank, Washington, DC
Tipo: Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper; Publications & Research
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#AGRICULTURAL WORKERS#BASIC FOOD BASKET#BENEFICIARIES#BENEFICIARY FAMILIES#BENEFICIARY HOUSEHOLDS#BREAST-FEEDING#CASH TRANSFER PROGRAM#CASH TRANSFERS#CLINICS#CONSUMER PRICE INDEX#CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURES
Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs aim to alleviate poverty through monetary and in-kind benefits, as well as reduce future levels of poverty by encouraging investments in education, health, and nutrition. The success of CCT programs at reducing poverty depends on whether, and the extent to which, cash transfers affect adult work incentives. The authors examine whether the PROGRESA program of Mexico affects adult participation in the labor market and overall adult leisure time, and they link these effects to the impact of the program on poverty. Using the experimental design of PROGRESA's evaluation sample, the authors find that the program does not have any significant effect on adult labor force participation and leisure time. Their findings on adult work incentives are reinforced further by the result that PROGRESA leads to a substantial reduction in poverty. The poverty reduction effects are stronger for the poverty gap and severity of poverty measures.
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Social Assistance Transfers in Bosnia and Herzegovina : Moving Toward a More Sustainable and Better-Targeted Safety Net; Socijalna davanja u Bosni i Hercegovini : Kreiranje odrzivog sistema socijalne zastite zasnovanog na stvarnim potrebama
Fonte: Washington, DC
Publicador: Washington, DC
Tipo: Economic & Sector Work :: Policy Note; Economic & Sector Work
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Public expenditures on non-insurance
social protection cash transfers absorb a huge share of the
entities' respective budgets. This level of spending
requires buoyant public revenues. However, public revenues
will be under continuing pressure in view of the impending
economic crisis. Moreover, devoting a large proportion of
public funds to social transfers has the effect of crowding
out resources that could be devoted to public investments
which will be increasingly needed to stimulate growth as the
economy begins to sag under the impact of the world economic
crisis. In addition, there is evidence that some rights
based programs create disincentives for employment. This
situation is fiscally unsustainable, economically
inefficient, and socially inequitable. Bosnia and
Herzegovina (BH) needs to completely overhaul it s
non-insurance social protection cash transfer programs.
There are many ways in which BH could reform these programs
and put in place measures aimed at developing a social
safety net that is: (a) less of a burden on public
resources...
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