A New Approach to Social Assistance: Latin America’s Experience with Conditional Cash Transfer Programs
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World Bank, Washington, DC
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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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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