A New Approach to Social Assistance: Latin America’s Experience with Conditional Cash Transfer Programs

A New Approach to Social Assistance: Latin America’s Experience with Conditional Cash Transfer Programs

Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) are an innovative and increasingly popular approach to social assistance. They provide money to poor families contingent upon certain behavior, usually investments in human capital such as keeping children in schoo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rawlings, Laura B.
Format: Brief
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:
ADULT EDUCATION
AGED
CARE CENTERS
CHILD LABOR
DEVELOPMENT NETWORK
DISABILITIES
ECONOMIC GROWTH
EDUCATION SERVICES
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
ENROLLMENT
ENROLLMENT RATES
EXTREME POVERTY
FAMILIES
GENDER
GIRLS
HEALTH CARE SERVICES
HEALTH CENTER
HEALTH CENTERS
HEALTH EDUCATION
HEALTH OUTCOMES
HEALTH SERVICES
HOUSING
HUMAN CAPITAL
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
IMMUNIZATION
INNOVATION
INTERVENTIONS
LOCAL CURRENCY
MOTHERS
NUTRITION
NUTRITIONAL STATUS
POOR CHILDREN
POOR HOUSEHOLDS
POVERTY ALLEVIATION
POVERTY TARGETING
PREGNANT WOMEN
PRIMARY HEALTH CARE
PRIMARY SCHOOL
PRIMARY SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
PRIMARY SCHOOLS
PUBLIC SERVICES
REDUCING POVERTY
SAFETY
SAFETY NET
SAFETY NETS
SECONDARY SCHOOLS
SERVICE PROVIDERS
SERVICE PROVISION
SOCIAL ASSISTANCE
SOCIAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS
SOCIAL INSURANCE
SOCIAL PROTECTION
SOCIAL SECURITY
VACCINATIONS
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/01/6248532/new-approach-social-assistance-latin-americas-experience-conditional-cash-transfer-programs
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/11813

Internet

http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/01/6248532/new-approach-social-assistance-latin-americas-experience-conditional-cash-transfer-programs
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/11813

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