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dc.titleThe Growth of Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin America and the Caribbean: Did They Go Too Far?
dc.contributor.authorStampini, Marco
dc.contributor.authorTornarolli, Leopoldo
dc.contributor.orgunitSocial Protection and Health Division
dc.coverageThe Caribbean
dc.coverageSouth America
dc.coverageCentral America
dc.date.available2013-01-04T00:00:00
dc.date.issue2012-11-30T00:00:00
dc.description.abstractConditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) are an endogenous innovation from Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) that aims to reduce current poverty while developing the human capital of the next generation, in the attempt to break the intergenerational transmission of poverty. Pioneered in Brazil and Mexico in the late 1990s, by 2011 CCTs had spread to 18 countries in the region and covered as many as 135 million beneficiaries. In this paper, we use administrative and household survey data to document (i) the evolution of CCTs and poverty in LAC, (ii) the relationship between expanded coverage and the quality of targeting and (iii) the change in beneficiary household characteristics. We show that in most countries the transfers represent over 20% of poor beneficiaries' incomes, and the poverty headcount index would be on average 13% higher, had CCTs not been implemented.
dc.format.extent33
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0008425
dc.identifier.urlhttps://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/The-Growth-of-Conditional-Cash-Transfers-in-Latin-America-and-the-Caribbean-Did-They-Go-Too-Far.pdf
dc.language.isoen
dc.mediumAdobe PDF
dc.publisherInter-American Development Bank
dc.subjectSocial Policy and Protection
dc.subjectPoverty
dc.subject.jelcodeI38 - Government Policy • Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
dc.subject.keywordsregional policy dialogue, Conditional Cash Transfers, CCTs, Socio-Economic Database for Latin America and the Caribbean
dc.typePolicy Briefs
idb.identifier.pubnumberPolicy Briefs
idb.operationRG-T1832
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