Conditional Cash Transfers: The Case of Progresa/Oportunidades

SW Parker, PE Todd - Journal of Economic Literature, 2017 - aeaweb.org
Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs innovate by conditioning transfers to poor families
on investments in the human capital of children and other family members. The Mexican …

Strategies to avoid the loss of developmental potential in more than 200 million children in the developing world

PL Engle, MM Black, JR Behrman, MC De Mello… - The lancet, 2007 - thelancet.com
This paper is the third in the Child Development Series. The first paper showed that more
than 200 million children under 5 years of age in developing countries do not reach their …

Resilience: new utopia or new tyranny? Reflection about the potentials and limits of the concept of resilience in relation to vulnerability reduction programmes

C Béné, RG Wood, A Newsham… - IDS Working Papers, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Resilience is becoming influential in development and vulnerability reduction sectors such
as social protection, disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. Policy makers …

[图书][B] Just give money to the poor: The development revolution from the global South

J Hanlon, A Barrientos, D Hulme - 2012 - books.google.com
* Argues strongly for overlooked approach to development by showing how the poor use
money in ways that confound stereotypical notions of aid and handouts* Team authored by …

Impact of small-scale irrigation on household food security: evidence from Ethiopia

Y Jambo, A Alemu, W Tasew - Agriculture & Food Security, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Background Adamitulu Jido Komoblcha is one of the districts located in lowland
areas of the Oromia region with irrigation potentials of 14,000 hectares out of which only …

Generating employment in poor and fragile states: Evidence from labor market and entrepreneurship programs

C Blattman, L Ralston - Available at SSRN 2622220, 2015 - papers.ssrn.com
The world's poor--and programs to raise their incomes--are increasingly concentrated in
fragile states. We review the evidence on what interventions work, and whether stimulating …

The effect of poverty on child development and educational outcomes

PL Engle, MM Black - Annals of the New York Academy of …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Poverty affects a child's development and educational outcomes beginning in the earliest
years of life, both directly and indirectly through mediated, moderated, and transactional …

Evaluating anti-poverty programs

M Ravallion - Handbook of development economics, 2007 - Elsevier
The chapter critically reviews the methods available for the ex post counterfactual analysis of
programs that are assigned exclusively to individuals, households or locations. The …

Investing cash transfers to raise long-term living standards

PJ Gertler, SW Martinez, M Rubio-Codina - American Economic Journal …, 2012 - aeaweb.org
Using data from a randomized experiment, we find that poor rural Mexican households
invested part of their cash transfers from the Oportunidades program in productive assets …

Conditional cash transfers for improving uptake of health interventions in low-and middle-income countries: a systematic review

M Lagarde, A Haines, N Palmer - Jama, 2007 - jamanetwork.com
ContextCash transfers conditional on certain behaviors, intended to provide access to social
services, have been introduced in several developing countries. The effectiveness of these …