Conditional Cash Transfer: a vaccine against poverty and inequality?

Conditional Cash Transfers (CCT) have been regarded worldwide as the latest ‘silver bullet’ to fight poverty and inequality. This reputation is largely based on the positive evaluations of the Latin American experiences, such as Progresa in Mexico, Bolsa Escola and Bolsa Alimentacao in Brazil (now u...

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Author: Soares, Fabio Veras
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2004
Country:Brasil
Institution:Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (IPEA)
Repository:Repositório Institucional da IPEA (RCIpea)
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.ipea.gov.br:11058/14918
Online Access:https://repositorio.ipea.gov.br/handle/11058/14918
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Poverty
CCT
Cash Transfers
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Summary:Conditional Cash Transfers (CCT) have been regarded worldwide as the latest ‘silver bullet’ to fight poverty and inequality. This reputation is largely based on the positive evaluations of the Latin American experiences, such as Progresa in Mexico, Bolsa Escola and Bolsa Alimentacao in Brazil (now unified into Bolsa Familia), and Familias en Accion in Colombia. Defenders of such programmes emphasize that their virtues consist in attacking both long- and short-term poverty and inequality. (...)