Poverty, inequality and public cash transfers: lessons from Latin America

摘要: As governments consider which policy parameters to select when designing a new cash transfer and how fine-tune existing transfers, information on the design options available, contribution of specific outcomes implementation details that facilitate these linkages, is critical. Focusing public transfers explicitly pursue poverty-reduction objective, this paper identifies central issues trade-offs associated with variations in targeting conditionality. These are then examined reference experience conditional (CCTs) nine countries Latin America. The highlights CCT reviews evidence their impact poverty inequality, paying particular attention estimates, where they intended unintended effects separate components. In final section, discusses implications arise from American countries.