Essays about: "Conditional Cash Transfer"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 26 essays containing the words Conditional Cash Transfer.

1. 1. Targeting the Poor Secondary Students for Stipend: Identifying the Gap between Policy and Implementation

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Chowdhury bdullah-Al-Baki; Farhana Akand; [2021-06-30]
   Keywords : Targeting; Conditional Cash Transfer; Poverty; Proxy Means Testing PMT ; Community-Based Targeting CBT ; Exclusion error; Inclusion error;

   Abstract : Well-designed and efficient poverty-based targeting methods are necessary for effectively identifying the poor households in poverty eradicating programs. This study investigates the ex-post implementation process and performance of two common targeting approaches - Proxy Means Test (PMT) and Community-Based Targeting (CBT)- to target the poor beneficiaries in a conditional cash transfer program in Bangladesh. READ MORE

3. 2. The Impact of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs on Educational Outcomes in Developing Countries. A Case Study: Bolsa Família in Brazil

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Author : Alisa Buchstab; [2021]
   Keywords : Conditional Cash Transfer Program; Education; Bolsa Família; Brazil; Business and Economics; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Bolsa Família is one of the largest conditional cash transfer programs in the world. It provides cash transfers to poor households, conditional on human capital requirements such as minimum school attendance. READ MORE

4. 3. Poverty and Inequality Reduction in the Case of Bolivia: What Has Impacted the Reduction during Evo Morales's Administration Period?

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Author : Alisa Buchstab; [2020]
   Keywords : Pro-poor growth; poverty; inequality; social spending; Bolivia; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : Bolivia has experienced a drastic decline in inequality and poverty since 2000. It coincided with the administrative period of Evo Morales between 2006 and 2019. Hence, it is debated whether poverty reduction was mainly driven by economic growth alongside the commodity boom in the 2000s or by policy implementations during Morales’s presidency. READ MORE

5. 4. Bolivia and the Program to Support Employment: an Impact Evaluation of its Conditional Cash Transfer Component

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Author : Guillaume Durand; [2018]
   Keywords : Conditional cash transfer; employment; labor income; employment benefit; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : The Bolivian Program to Support Employment provides subsidized training to the unemployed and helps comparatively untrained and inexperienced people improve their employability. Albeit this programme was discontinued in 2017, a second version is currently being implemented to continue its work. READ MORE

6. 5. Cash is Queen - Impacts of conditional cash transfers on women’s empowerment

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Linn Hedman; Clara Leandersson; [2017]
   Keywords : Conditional Cash Transfers; Women’s Empowerment; Peru; Propensity Score Matching; Difference-in-Differences; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates the causal effects of the Peruvian conditional cash transfer (CCT) program, Juntos, on women’s empowerment defined along the psychological and familial dimensions. Usually, the main goal of CCTs is to reduce poverty. READ MORE