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’Growing Pains’: Key Challenges for New Conditional Cash Transfer Programmes
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Location:
Distrito Federal, 70076900, Brazil
Contact person:
International Poverty Centre
Organization:
International Poverty Centre
Website:
http://www.undp-povertycentre.org/pub/IPCOnePager44.pdf
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Language(s):
English
Media:
Article or paper, Website
Fax:
+ 55 61 21055001
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Area of Focus:
Economic Development, Poverty and Hunger, Social Enterprise and Economic Development
Phone:
+ 55 61 2105 5000
Last updated:
January 29, 2008
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Description:
We are pleased to announce the publication of IPC One Pager #44, “’Growing Pains’: Key Challenges for New Conditional Cash Transfer Programmes in Latin America”. The authors, Fabio Veras Soares and Tatiana Britto, address the key challenge of ‘exit door’ strategies for CCT programmes, particularly in countries, such as El Salvador and Paraguay, which have less financial and institutional capacities than Brazil and Mexico. While acknowledging that such features can help enhance political support for CCTs, they maintain that early ‘exit’ of beneficiaries is inconsistent with the longer-term objective of human-capital accumulation. Moreover, such programmes should evolve, ideally, into permanent features of these countries’ general social-protection strategies.
Available online at: http://www.undp-povertycentre.org/pub/IPCOnePager44.pdf
This One Pager is part of IPC’s ongoing research programme on “Cash Transfers and Social Protection”.
See the related IPC Working Paper #38, “Confronting Capacity Constraints on Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin America: The Cases of El Salvador and Paraguay”.
Other IPC publications at: http://www.undp-povertycentre.org/ipcpublications.htm
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