Conditional Cash Transfer Programs and Electoral Accountability: Evidence from Latin America

Evaluating the Impact of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs Lessons from Latin America

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Conditional cash transfer programmes and gender vulnerabilities in Latin America -

Campaign Promises, Economic Performance, and Electoral Accountability in Latin America

[Healthcare rights and conditional cash transfers in Latin America].

Conditional cash transfer programs in Latin America impose specific requirements and responsibilities on beneficiary households, in order to upgrade education levels, improve drop-out rates and eliminate child labor, while enhancing health and nutrition indicators. Although counterpart healthcare conditions are common to all these programs, government strategies differ in terms of reaching thei...

Making Conditional Cash Transfer Programs More Efficient

Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs have become extensively used to induce poor parents to increase their investments in the human capital of their children. The condition on school attendance and use of health facilities transforms the transfer into a price effect on the condition. Justification for the condition is to reduce market failures due to positive externalities from investments ...