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Poverty, inequality and public cash transfers: lessons from Latin America

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  • Bastagli, Francesca

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As governments consider which policy parameters to select when designing a new cash transfer and how to fine-tune existing transfers, information on the design options available, on the contribution of specific cash transfer parameters to outcomes and on the implementation details that facilitate these linkages, is critical. Focusing on public cash transfers that explicitly pursue a poverty-reduction objective, this paper identifies the central issues and trade-offs associated with variations in the design details of transfers, targeting and conditionality. These issues are then examined with reference to the experience of conditional cash transfers (CCTs) in nine countries in Latin America. The paper highlights the variations in CCT design and implementation and reviews the evidence of their impact on poverty and inequality, paying particular attention to estimates, where they are available, of the intended and unintended effects of separate cash transfer components. In the final section, the paper discusses the policy implications that arise from the CCT experience in Latin American countries.

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  • Bastagli, Francesca, 2010. "Poverty, inequality and public cash transfers: lessons from Latin America," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 36840, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
  • Handle: RePEc:ehl:lserod:36840
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    1. World Bank, 2016. "Republic of Angola Poverty and Social Impact Analysis," World Bank Publications - Reports 25105, The World Bank Group.
    2. 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.
    3. Cecilia Rossel & Denise Courtoisie & Magdalena Marsiglia, 2019. "How could conditional cash transfer programme conditionalities reinforce vulnerability? Non‐compliers and policy implementation gaps in Uruguay's Family Allowances," Development Policy Review, Overseas Development Institute, vol. 37(1), pages 3-18, January.
    4. Liz Richardson & Kingsley Purdam & Sarah Cotterill & James Rees & Graham Squires & Rebecca Askew, 2014. "Responsible Citizens and Accountable Service Providers? Renegotiating the Contract between Citizen and State," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 46(7), pages 1716-1731, July.
    5. Wiggins, S., 2016. "IFAD RESEARCH SERIES 1 - Agricultural and rural development reconsidered: a guide to issues and debates," IFAD Research Series 280035, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).
    6. Cruz, Marcio & Ziegelhofer, Zacharias, 2014. "Beyond the income effect : impacts of conditional cash transfer programs on private investments in human capital," Policy Research Working Paper Series 6867, The World Bank.

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    JEL classification:

    • N0 - Economic History - - General
    • E6 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook

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