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Conditional versus unconditional cash: a commentary

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To condition or not to condition; that is a question that preoccupies social protection experts and policy-makers alike, and one that divides rights-based camps from the incentives-based ones. This commentary argues that this debate may be a red herring. The line between conditional and unconditional (or social) cash transfer programmes is blurred at best. Both conditions and the ‘no-strings-attached’ version need to be communicated and perceived as such by programme implementers and beneficiaries for the programme to be interpreted as being one or the other. A key distinction found between the cash transfer programmes in Latin America, mostly conditioned, and those in Africa, mostly unconditioned, is the incorporation in the latter of a substantial role for the community in the overall selection of the beneficiaries. The commentary argues that an interesting area for further research would be to look at how this community participation leads to explicit or implicit peer monitoring, and thereby acts in a similar way as a condition does.

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  • Marie Gaarder, 2012. "Conditional versus unconditional cash: a commentary," Journal of Development Effectiveness, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 4(1), pages 130-133, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jdevef:v:4:y:2012:i:1:p:130-133
    DOI: 10.1080/19439342.2012.658635
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    3. Francesco Burchi & Margherita Scarlato & Giorgio d'Agostino, 2018. "Addressing Food Insecurity in Sub‐Saharan Africa: The Role of Cash Transfers," Poverty & Public Policy, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 10(4), pages 564-589, December.
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    5. Skovdal, Morten & Robertson, Laura & Mushati, Phyllis & Dumba, Lovemore & Sherr, Lorraine & Nyamukapa, Constance & Gregson, Simon, 2013. "Acceptability of conditions in a community-led cash transfer programme for orphaned and vulnerable children in Zimbabwe," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 52945, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
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    8. Sheliza Ladhani & Kathleen C. Sitter, 2020. "Conditional cash transfers: A critical review," Development Policy Review, Overseas Development Institute, vol. 38(1), pages 28-41, January.

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