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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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2012
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| 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 |
| Summary: | 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 school or taking them to health
centers on a regular basis. These programs are perhaps the
clearest policy manifestation of a new line of thinking on
the long-term role of social assistance programs. Not only
are they instruments for short-term poverty alleviation, but
they also encompass longer-term economic growth and human
capital development objectives. They have been adopted
internationally and in several countries they have been
scaled up to become integral components of poverty
alleviation strategies. |
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