Essays about: "Unconditional Cash Transfer"

Found 3 essays containing the words Unconditional Cash Transfer.

1. 1. Coping with Covid-19 in rural India: Did financial strategies help to maintain wellbeing?

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Simona Koria; Jennifer Träff; [2022-06-30]
   Keywords : Psychological Wellbeing; Financial Coping; Unconditional Cash Transfer; Covid-19; Panel Data; Propensity Score Matching; Low-and Middle Income Countries;

   Abstract : This thesis examines the direct impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on psychological wellbeing and explores the mediating role of financial coping strategies for this association. Using four waves of representative panel data, collected in 2018, 2020 and 2021 from 2 997 households living across 294 villages in the state of Odisha, India, we find that stress increased whilst depression decreased, resulting in psychological wellbeing being unchanged during the pandemic. READ MORE

3. 2. What difference does cash do for children in emergency settings? : A literature review on what is required for unconditional cash programming to successfully mitigate negative coping mechanisms for Syrian refugee children living outside of camps in Jordan

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

   Author : Jessika Gustavsson; [2015]
   Keywords : Child Protection; Emergencies; Humanitarian; Cash Transfer Programs; Child Protection Minimum Standards; Theory of Change;

   Abstract : This research analyzes how, why and under what circumstances unconditional Cash Transfer Programs (CTP) could contribute to mitigating negative coping strategies for children and their families in emergency settings and what the main obstacles for successful programs are. More specifically, the research uses the context for Syrian refugees in Jordan as a case study and applies lessons learned from other CTPs. READ MORE

4. 3. Choices For Everyone? - A Critical Analysis on Conditionality in Cash Transfers

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

   Author : Tove Thunander; [2012]
   Keywords : capabilities approach; the World Bank; conditional cash transfers; conditionality; paternalism; development thinking; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The use of conditional cash transfers (CCTs) as means of combating poverty has increased considerably the past decade. CCTs are safety net programs that transfer cash to targeted poor households, often to the mothers, on the condition that those households make pre-specified investments in the human capital of their children. READ MORE