Cash Transfers and Gendered Risks and Vulnerabilities: Lessons from Latin America

Effective poverty reduction and empowering women: a win-win situation? CCTs in Latin America

Conditional cash transfer programmes (CCTs) provide poor households with cash transfers on the condition that their children attend school and have regular health check-ups or similar measures that invest in their human capital. The fact that mothers are commonly chosen as recipients of these transfers has often led to the claim that CCTs, in addition to reducing poverty, also empower women and...

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InequalIty in Focus Taxes , Transfers , and Income Redistribution in Latin America

H ow much reduction in inequality and poverty does latin america accomplish through taxes and transfers? How progressive1 are revenue-collection and social-spending patterns? an in-depth fiscal incidence analysis applied to argentina’s urban areas, where three-fourths of the population lives, as well as to Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, and uruguay, finds the following: 1. the extent of income ...

Social protection to support vulnerable children and families: the potential of cash transfers to protect education, health and nutrition

Investing in social protection in sub-Saharan Africa has taken on a new urgency as HIV and AIDS interact with other drivers of poverty to simultaneously destabilise livelihoods systems and family and community safety nets. Cash transfer programmes already reach millions of people in South Africa, and in other countries in southern and East Africa plans are underway to reach tens and eventually ...

Conditional Cash Transfers and Their Effect on Poverty, Inequality, and School Enrollment: The Case of Mexico and Latin America

Over the past two decades, conditional cash transfer (CCT) has become one of the most widespread approaches to social development in Latin America. Spurred in large part by the evident and immediate success of Mexico’s CCT initiative, a multitude of countries began to invest heavily in this strategy hoping to reduce poverty and inequality in the short and long run. This paper examines the relat...