Abstract:"While conditional cash transfers (CCTs) belong to a relatively new and expanding generation of social protection programmes, unconditional benefits (generally defined as unconditional cash transfer programmes—UCTs) have long occupied the social protection scene. Evidence shows that both transfers have a positive impact on fundamental dimensions of human capital accumulation such as nutrition, cognitive development and education."(…)

Keywords:conditions, conditionality, cash transfers

Publication Date:08 March 2016

Type/Issue:One Pager/317

ISSN:2318-9118