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Showing 1 to 20 of 69 for “"Cash Transfer"”.
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The effects of Conditional Cash Transfer programs on Latin American presidential elections
… all of them currently invest in Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs, i.e. programs that pay cash to poor families and impose health and education conditionalities on their children. Political scientists investigating the phenomenon commonly argue that these programs have a strong …
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The disability cash transfer as a means of poverty reduction at Nqutu Local Municipality
… helping people with disabilities: The Disability Cash Transfer (DCT). Physical and mental conditions of people with disabilities vary from one person to another, which means that the type of care they require as they grow older is also different. Therefore, people with disabilities constantly …
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The impact of a conditional cash transfer program on consumption of rural households in Peru
… explores the impact of Juntos, a conditional cash transfer program from Peru, on consumption and utilization of basic health services for children and women in childbearing age, and on schooling attendance. In this thesis, I use instrumental variable techniques to measure the effect of the …
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Changing the ability of the poor to generate income : Mexico's Conditional Cash Transfer program Oportunidades
Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs have been adopted in many developing countries, particularly in Latin America, as the core strategy for poverty reduction. These programs provide immediate economic support to poor populations conditional on specific actions such as sending children to …
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An exploratory study highlighting the complexities in the targeting of beneficiaries in Malawi's social cash transfer programme
… or comparatively very weak, the origins of cash transfer schemes stem from the search for alternatives to food and input transfers to tackle hunger"(Slater,2011:256). In the sub-Saharan region, for example, countries such as South Africa, Zambia, Kenya, Namibia and Malawi have similarly …
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Follow the child: the effect of an unconditional cash transfer on adolescent human capital and mental health
… 1990s, South Africa introduced an unconditional cash transfer program for children, which had more than eleven million beneficiaries in 2014. The evaluation of similar cash transfer programs is a widely researched space, however much of the literature focuses on younger children, and outcomes …
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The Impact of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs Under Risk-Sharing Arrangements: Schooling and Consumption Smoothing in Rural Mexico
… as well as the effectiveness of conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs. In particular, I compare the outcomes (schooling, child labor, and consumption) generated under the informal risk-sharing model with those that would be obtained, forcing households to make choices under autarky. I …
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A small push goes a long way: An evaluation of the cumulative effects of a cash transfer on South African youth
… countries in the Americas, Africa and Asia. Cash transfer programs were introduced in many low-income countries in the 1990s, often intended to reduce poverty and increase human capital. South Africa launched the child support grant (CSG) in 1998, an unconditional cash transfer for children …
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Challenges Facing Poor Households in Complying with Cash Transfer Conditionalities. A Case of TASAF III at Iguguno Ward in Mkalama District Council
… facing the poor households to comply with cash transfer conditionalities. In the context of the increasing demand of conditional cash transfers in the development agenda of many less developed countries, this research study provides an analytical overview of the challenges faced by the poor …
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Can development initiatives reduce the recruitment of adolescents to organised crime groups? Perspectives of the recipients of the Prospera Conditional Cash Transfer Programme in Mexico
… of a development initiative, the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programme in two municipalities in Mexico. The thesis poses questions about the impacts of Development initiatives upon organised crime violence from the perspectives of those living within areas affected by violence. The CCT …
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The politics of welfare policy reforms: a comparative study of how and why changes of government affect policy making on social cash transfer programmes in Zambia and Malawi
… of reforms to promote or constrain social cash transfer programmes (SCTs) by government administrations within and across the two countries over time. Recent research on social protection in Africa shows that politics matters for the expansion of programmes, but the literature discussing …
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DO CASH TRANSFERS IMPACT MIGRATION? A STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF PROCAMPO AND PROGRESA ON SHORT-TERM MIGRATION IN MEXICO
This study evaluates the impact of two cash transfer programs implemented by the Mexican government, Procampo and Progresa, on short-term migration (migration for a period of less than 12 months). Using the 2002 Mexican Family Life Survey, a logit model is used to estimate the effect of these cash …
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DO CASH TRANSFERS IMPACT MIGRATION? A STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF PROCAMPO AND PROGRESA ON SHORT-TERM MIGRATION IN MEXICO
This study evaluates the impact of two cash transfer programs implemented by the Mexican government, Procampo and Progresa, on short-term migration (migration for a period of less than 12 months). Using the 2002 Mexican Family Life Survey, a logit model is used to estimate the effect of these cash …
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Essays on the impact of income on family and child well-being
… investigate the extent to which an unconditional cash transfer to families in Germany that is intended to benefit children actually translates into an improvement in the circumstances related to child well-being. Next, I analyze how shocks to mothers’ earnings impact their demand for health inputs …
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Conditional Cash Transfers, Gender and Human Rights: Experiences of Indigenous Men and Women from San Juan Cancuc, Chiapas
Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) have been regarded as one of the main policy tools to eradicate poverty. The mechanism of CCTs consists on providing cash to low-income families with the co-responsibilities of attending to regular health check-ups, keeping children at school and attending …
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O papel do programa de assistência social Bolsa Família na vida das ex-beneficiadas
This work studied the Family allowance theme cash transfer program. Given the breadth of the subject, the study narrowed its approach in an attempt to study the changes and the potential that the family allowance program has caused in the lives of some women in the city of João Pessoa. The general …
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Challenging Patronage Networks and Corruption in Iraq: A social accounting matrix analysis of citizen-based oil revenue distribution
… programs. These variations include a universal cash transfer funded by oil revenue surpluses, a targeted cash transfer funded by oil revenue surpluses and a universal cash transfer funded by the reallocation of funding from the existing food subsidy system. The results illustrate that in each of …
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Three Essays on Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa: Multidimensional Poverty Change in Zimbabwe; Long-Term Impact of Cash Transfers in Niger; and Targeting Efficiency of Social Protection Programs in Cameroon
… of two targeting mechanisms employed in a cash transfer project in rural Cameroon: Proxy Means Testing (PMT) and community targeting. Results show a poor performance of community targeting in selecting households with low per capita consumption, compared to PMT targeting—whose errors remain …
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South Africa's social assistance intervention as a building block of a developmental state
… development as freedom, I explore the impact of cash transfers on households, on access to socio-economic opportunities and to the overall development of local democracy. Sen's capability approach and theoretical analysis of development helps to link different dimensions of poverty with human and …
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Poverty alleviation: beyond the national small business strategy
… design. I explore developmental consequences of cash transfers and argue that no other intervention could, at this stage, have the geographical and numerical impact that a cash transfer could have. In addition, the poor's need for a reliable, secure income is an aspect of poverty that I …
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