Cash Transfers, Children and the Crisis : Protecting Current and Future Investments

• Tác giả: Ariel Fiszbein
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 362.74 *Maladjusted young people
• Thông tin xuất bản: 2012
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 259219
• Chủ đề: 1. Environmental Taxes and Subsidies H230; 2. Financial Crises G010; 3. Redistributive Effects; 4. Taxation and Subsidies: Externalities; 5. Welfare and Poverty: Government Programs

Tóm tắt

In a mix of responses to the food, fuel, and financial crises of 2008-9, some developing countries have introduced new safety-net programmes, while others have modified and/or expanded existing ones. Many have introduced conditional cash transfers (CCTs) in recent years, and these have been used as an important starting point for a response. This article aims to describe these various experiences with CCTs, to distil lessons about their effectiveness as crisis-response programmes for households with children, to identify design features that can facilitate their ability to respond to transient poverty shocks, and to assess how they can complement other safety-net programmes.