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Cash transfers for poverty reduction: an international operational guide

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge Textbooks in Development EconomicsPublication details: Routledge New York 2024Description: xxxvii, 501 pISBN:
  • 9781138222700
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.582 AYA
Summary: Over the past 20 years, more than 100 countries have implemented social safety nets, targeted at the poorest and most vulnerable. Impact evaluations have shown the effectiveness of these programmes, and policymakers have explored different methods of delivery, including cash transfers. Cash Transfers for Poverty Reduction offers the first systematic discussion of the design and implementation of poverty reduction schemes, and cash transfer programmes in particular. The authors also draw on their own practical experienceand present global case studies to show the effects that these decisions have on operations and outcomes. Featuring end-of-chapter questions and answers to help test your knowledge, this book offers an operational guide for key stakeholders, officials and students in understanding the design, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation of cash transfer programmes. (https://www.routledge.com/Cash-Transfers-for-Poverty-Reduction-An-International-Operational-Guide/Ayala-Lawson/p/book/9781138222700)
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Table of contents:
1. Social Protection Systems: a deeper understanding 2. The Genesis of Designing and Implementing Cash Transfers 3. Assessing Supply Capacity of Services Providers 4. Reaching the Poorest: Using Targeting Mechanisms to Focus Resources on Vulnerable People 5. Targeting Engineering: Cost Analysis 6. From being Targeted to becoming a Beneficiary 7. Providing Cash to the Poor and Vulnerable 8. Track Conditionalities Compliance to Increase Human Capital 9. Case Management: Empowering Poor and Vulnerable People 10. Monitoring: Implementing Actions while Achieving Goals 11. Answers to end-of-chapter Exercises
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Over the past 20 years, more than 100 countries have implemented social safety nets, targeted at the poorest and most vulnerable. Impact evaluations have shown the effectiveness of these programmes, and policymakers have explored different methods of delivery, including cash transfers.

Cash Transfers for Poverty Reduction offers the first systematic discussion of the design and implementation of poverty reduction schemes, and cash transfer programmes in particular. The authors also draw on their own practical experienceand present global case studies to show the effects that these decisions have on operations and outcomes.

Featuring end-of-chapter questions and answers to help test your knowledge, this book offers an operational guide for key stakeholders, officials and students in understanding the design, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation of cash transfer programmes.

(https://www.routledge.com/Cash-Transfers-for-Poverty-Reduction-An-International-Operational-Guide/Ayala-Lawson/p/book/9781138222700)

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