• IPC-IG Publications
• IPEA Publications
• Evaluation reports
• Country Programmes (CCTs and CTs)
• Newsletter: Brazil-Africa Cooperation Programme
• Events
• Interviews
• Other resources

Opportunity NYC: a Performance-Based conditional Cash Transfer Programme. A Qualitative Analysis
Michelle Morais de Sa e Silva. Working Paper # 49. November 2008.

Cash Transfers and Child Labour: An Intriguing Relationship
Guilherme Issamu Hirata. One Pager # 71. November 2008.

¿Qué Familias Están en Condiciones de Salir del Programa Familias en Acción?
Juan Miguel Villa . Evaluation Note # 4. September 2008.

As Condicionalidades São Necessárias em um Programa de Transferência Condicionada? Evidências do PROGRESA/México
Alan de Brauw and John Hoddinott. One Pager # 64. September 2008.

Is the Conditionality Necessary in Conditional Cash Transfer Programmes? Evidence from Mexico
Alan de Brauw and John Hoddinott. One Pager # 64. August 2008.

Transferências de Renda Condicionadas: Porque Focalização e Condicionalidades podem Falhar
Guy Standing. One Pager # 47. August 2008.

Transferts monétaires conditionnels: pourquoi la constitution de groupes cibles et leur assujettissement à des conditions pourraient-ils se solder par des échecs?
Guy Standing. One Pager # 47. August 2008.

Transferencias Monetarias Condicionales: Por qué la Focalización y las Condiciones Pueden Fallar
Guy Standing. One Pager # 47. August 2008.

Cash Transfers – Lessons from Africa and Latin America
Degol Hailu and Fabio Veras Soares. Poverty In Focus # 15. August 2008.

Souffrances de la Croissance: Principaux Défis qui se Posent aux Nouveaux Programmes de Transferts Monétaires Conditionnels en Amérique Latine
Fabio Veras Soares and Tatiana Britto. One Pager # 44. August 2008.

‘Dores de Crescimento’: Os Principais Desafios dos Novos Programas de Transferência Condicional de Renda na América Latina
Fabio Veras Soares and Tatiana Britto. One Pager # 44. August 2008.

‘Dolores del Crecimiento’: Desafíos Clave para Nuevos Programas de Transferencias Monetarias Condicionadas en Latinoamérica
Fabio Veras Soares and Tatiana Britto. One Pager # 44. August 2008.

The Recent Impact of Government Transfers on Poverty in Honduras and Alternatives to Enhance their Effects
Rafael Guerreiro Osorio. Working Paper # 47. August 2008.

New York’s Brand-new Conditional Cash Transfer Programme: What if it Succeeds?
Michelle Morais de Sa e Silva. One Pager # 60. July 2008.

Los Desafíos del Programa de Transferencias Monetarias Condicionadas en El Salvador, Red Solidaria
Tatiana Britto. Country Study # 9. June 2008.

Les Transferts d’Argent Peuvent-ils tous Réduire les Inégalités?
Sergei Suarez Dillon Soares and Eduardo Zepeda. One Pager # 36. June 2008.

Targeted Cash Transfer Programmes in Brazil: BPC and the Bolsa Familia
Marcelo Medeiros, Tatiana Britto and Fabio Veras Soares. Working Paper # 46. June 2008.

Los Logros y las Carencias de las Transferencias de Efectivo Condicionadas: Evaluación del Impacto del Programa Tekoporã del Paraguay
Fabio Veras Soares, Rafael Perez Ribas and Guilherme Issamu Hirata. Evaluation Note # 3. May 2008.

Transferências Condicionadas de Renda (TCR) Reduzem a Pobreza?
Eduardo Zepeda. One Pager # 21. April 2008.

¿Los CCTs Reducen la Pobreza?
Eduardo Zepeda. One Pager # 21. April 2008.

Assessing Honduras’ CCT Programme PRAF, Programa de Asignación Familiar: Expected and Unexpected Realities
Charity Moore. Country Study # 15. April 2008.

Achievements and Shortfalls of Conditional Cash Transfers: Impact Evaluation of Paraguay’s Tekoporã Programme
Fabio Veras Soares, Rafael Perez Ribas and Guilherme Issamu Hirata. Evaluation Note # 3. March 2008.

Debatiendo los Métodos de Focalización para las Transferencias Monetarias: Índice Multidimensional vs. Proxy de Ingresos para el Programa Tekoporã de Paraguay
Rafael Perez Ribas, Guilherme Issamu Hirata and Fabio Veras Soares. Evaluation Note # 2. March 2008.

Debating Targeting Methods for Cash Transfers: A Multidimensional Index vs. an Income Proxy for Paraguay’s Tekoporã Programme
Rafael Perez Ribas, Guilherme Issamu Hirata and Fabio Veras Soares. Evaluation Note # 2. January 2008.

Todas as Transferências de Renda Diminuem a Desigualdade?
Sergei Suarez Dillon Soares and Eduardo Zepeda. One Pager # 36. January 2008.

¿Pueden Todas las Transferencias Monetarias Reducir Desigualdades?
Sergei Suarez Dillon Soares and Eduardo Zepeda. One Pager # 36. January 2008.

Encarando las Limitaciones en la Capacidad para Transferencias Monetarias Condicionadas en Latinoamerica: Los Casos de El Salvador y Paraguay
Fabio Veras Soares and Tatiana Britto. Working Paper # 38. January 2008.

Conditional Cash Transfers: Why Targeting and Conditionalities Could Fail
Guy Standing. One Pager # 47. December 2007.

Avaliando o Impacto do Programa Bolsa Família: Uma Comparação com Programas de Transferência Condicionada de Renda de outros Países
Fabio Veras Soares, Rafael Perez Ribas and Rafael Guerreiro Osorio. Evaluation Note # 1. December 2007.

Evaluating the Impact of Brazil’s Bolsa Família: Cash Transfer Programmes in Comparative Perspective
Fabio Veras Soares, Rafael Perez Ribas and Rafael Guerreiro Osorio. Evaluation Note # 1. December 2007.

‘Growing Pains’: Key Challenges for New Conditional Cash Transfer Programmes in Latin America
Fabio Veras Soares and Tatiana Britto. One Pager # 44. November 2007.

The Challenges of El Salvador’s Conditional Cash Transfer Programme, Red Solidaria
Tatiana Britto. Country Study # 9. September 2007.

The Impact of Unconditional Cash Transfers on Nutrition: The South African Child Support Grant
Jorge M. Agüero, Michael R. Carter and Ingrid Woolard. Working Paper # 39. September 2007.

Confronting Capacity Constraints on Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin America: the cases of El Salvador and Paraguay
Fabio Veras Soares and Tatiana Britto. Working Paper # 38. August 2007.

Job Creation versus Cash Transfers in Kenya
Eduardo Zepeda. One Pager # 41. August 2007.

Expanding the Social Security Net in South Africa: Opportunities, Challenges and Constraints
Kalie Pauw and Liberty Mncube. Country Study # 8. July 2007.

Can all Cash Transfers Reduce Inequality?
Sergei Suarez Dillon Soares and Eduardo Zepeda. One Pager # 36. May 2007.

Conditional Cash Transfers in Brazil, Chile and Mexico: Impacts upon Inequality
Sergei Suarez Dillon Soares, Rafael Guerreiro Osorio, Fabio Veras Soares, Marcelo Medeiros and Eduardo Zepeda. Working Paper # 35. April 2007.

Has there been any Social Mobility for Non-Whites in Brazil?
Rafael Guerreiro Osorio. One Pager # 27. January 2007.

Old-Age Poverty and Social Pensions in Kenya
Hyun H. Son and Nanak Kakwani. One Pager # 25. November 2006.

Do CCTs Reduce Poverty?
Eduardo Zepeda. One Pager # 21. September 2006.

Linkages between Pro-Poor Growth, Social Programmes and Labour Market: The Recent Brazilian Experience
Nanak Kakwani, Marcelo Neri and Hyun H. Son. Working Paper # 26. August 2006.

Poverty, Old-Age and Social Pensions in Kenya
Nanak Kakwani, Hyun H. Son and Richard Hinz. Working Paper # 24. July 2006.

Social protection - the role of cash transfers
Dag Ehrenpreis. Poverty In Focus # 8. June 2006.

Cash Transfer Programmes in Brazil: Impacts on Inequality and Poverty
Fabio Veras Soares, Sergei Suarez Dillon Soares, Marcelo Medeiros and Rafael Guerreiro Osorio. Working Paper # 21. June 2006.

Cash benefits to disabled persons in Brazil: An analysis of the BPC – Continuous Cash Benefit Programme
Marcelo Medeiros, Debora Diniz and Flávia Squinca. Working Paper # 16. May 2006.

Conditional cash transfers in African countries
Nanak Kakwani, Fabio Veras Soares and Hyun H. Son. Working Paper # 9. November 2005.

Three models of social protection
Alejandro Grinspun. One Pager # 17. October 2005.

Ageing and poverty in africa and the role of social pensions
Nanak Kakwani and Kalanidhi Subbarao. Working Paper # 8. August 2005.

Conditional Cash Transfer: a vaccine against poverty and inequality?
Fabio Veras Soares. One Pager # 3. October 2004.

A Queda Recente da Desigualdade de Renda no Brasil – Texto de Discussão nº 1258
Ricardo Paes de Barros, Miguel Nathan Foguel, Gabriel Ulyssea (organizadores). Rio de Janeiro, 2007.

A Importância da Queda Recente da Desigualdade na Redução da Pobreza – Texto de Discussão nº 1256
Ricardo Paes de Barros, Mirela de Carvalho, Samuel Franco e Rosane Mendonça. Rio de Janeiro, 2007

Desigualdade de Renda no Brasil: uma análise da queda recente
Ricardo Paes de Barros, Mirela de Carvalho, Samuel Franco e Rosane Mendonça. Rio de Janeiro, 2007.

Determinantes Imediatos da Queda da Desigualdade de Renda Brasileira – Texto de Discussão nº 1253
Ricardo Paes de Barros, Mirela de Carvalho, Samuel Franco e Rosane Mendonça. Rio de Janeiro, 2007 

Sobre a Recente Queda da Desigualdade de Renda no Brasil – Nota Técnica 03/2007

Programas de Transferência de Renda no Brasil: impactos sobre a desigualdade – Texto de Discussão nº 1228
Fabio Veras Soares, Sergei Soares, Marcelo Medeiros e Rafael Guerreiro Osório. Brasília, 2006.

Transferências de Renda para a População com Deficiência no Brasil: Uma Análise do Benefício de Prestação Continuada – Texto de Discussão nº 1184
Marcelo Medeiros, Debora Diniz e Flávia Squinca. Brasília, 2006.

Bolsa Família Programme (Brazil)

Bono de Desarrollo Humano (Ecuador)

Programa Oportunidades (Mexico)

Social Cash Transfer Scheme - Zambia

The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)
Famílias en Acción (Colombia)

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Bolsa Alimentação (Brazil)
Programa de Asignación Familiar (Honduras)
Red de Protección Social (Nicaragua)
PROGRESA (Mexico)
GAPVU Cash Transfer Program (Mozambique)

Overseas Development Institute (ODI)
Independent Evaluation of Oxfam GB Malawi's Cash Transfer Programme
Independent Evaluation of Oxfam GB Zambia's Cash Transfer Programme

Mathematica
Programme of Advancement through Health and Education (PATH Jamaica)

United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
The Malawi social cash transfer scheme: preliminary lessons learned

World Bank
Bono de Desarrollo Humano (Ecuador)

IPC-IG/GTZ
Tekoporã (Paraguay)

• Cash Transfer Programmes in Africa


• Cash Transfer Programmes in Asia and the Pacific


• Cash Transfer Programmes in Latin America and the Caribbean

• Newsletter: Social Protection in West Africa: Many Challenges but Great Initiatives
Newsletter 2. August 2008
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• Newsletter: Brazil-Africa Cooperation Programme
Newsletter 1. June 2008
Portuguese French

"IPC-IG Seminar - Opportunity NYC - New York’s brand-new Conditional Cash Transfer Programme: A Qualitative Analysis"

We are consolidating a section on international and national events (seminars, workshops, consultations and conferences) related to cash transfer programmes. Please send an e-mail to events@undp-povertycentre.org with information on an event (title, venue, organizing institutions, website and contact details) for dissemination on this website.

UNICEF Egypt sponsored International Conference: “Child Poverty and Disparities: Public Policies for Social Justice”
January 2009 - Cairo, Egypt

"Asian Social Protection in Comparative Perspective" 7-9 January, 2009 - National University of Singapore, Singapore

1st Conference of Ministers in Charge of Social Development: "Towards a Sustainable Social Development Agenda for Africa"
October 27-31st, 2008 - Windhoek, Namibia

Past events:

“Social protection for the Poorest in Africa: Learning from Experience” 08-10 September 2008 Kampala, Uganda

“Enabling Inclusive Growth” University of Glasgow, 25-26 June 2008, United Kingdom.

Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme - “Food Price Inflation: The Role of Social Protection in Combating Food Insecurity” 15 May 2008 Johannesburg, South Africa

IPC-IG Seminar "O Impacto dos Programas de Transferência de Renda sobre Consumo e Preços: A Experiência do Paraguai" - March 13 (2008)- Brasília, Brazil

IPC-IG Seminar “Cash Transfer Programs and Female Paid Labor” - February 19 (2008)- Brasília, Brazil

Workshop “Designing and Implementing Social Transfer Programmes” - September 16-29 (2007) - Cape Town, South Africa

IPC-IG Seminar – “The Impact of Bolsa Família on Nutrition Outcomes and Access to Health Services” – August 23 (2007) - Brasilia, Brazil

Bi-Regional Conference on Social Protection and Poverty Reduction – June 7-9 2007 – Cape Town, South Africa

IPC-IG Seminar - “Impact Evaluation of the Bolsa Família Programme ” – June 02 - 2007 Brasilia, Brazil

Foro-Taller Internacional: Experiencias y Lecciones aprendidas de Programas de Transferencias Monetarias Condicionadas en Países Latinoamericanos. San Salvador, 16, 17 y 18 de Mayo de 2007

IPC-IG Seminar - “Tekoporã anti-poverty programme in Paraguay” – May 07 2007 Brasilia, Brazil

Candados y Derechos: Protección de programas sociales y construcción de ciudadanía – April 25 – 27 2007 – Cuidad de Mexico, Mexico

IPC-IG Seminar - “Simulando os Impactos dos Programas de Transferência Condicionada de Renda: O Caso Colombiano” – April 24 2007 Brasilia, Brazil

IPC-IG Seminar - “Conceptual and Operational Features of El Salvador’s Conditional Cash Transfer programme (Red Solidária)” – April 10 2007 Brasilia, Brazil

Africa Regional Workshop on Cash Transfer Programs for the Vulnerable Groups - Mombasa, Kenya, February 26-28, 2007

Third International Conditional Cash Transfer Conference – June 26-30 2006 – Istanbul, Turkey

Intergovernmental regional conference “A transformative agenda for the 21st Century: Examining the case for basic social protection in Africa” - March 20-23 2006 - Livingstone, Zambia

Second International Conference on Conditional Cash Transfer Programs - April 26-29 2004 – São Paulo, Brazil

First International Conference on Conditional Cash Transfer Programs - April 29-May 1 2002 – Puebla, Mexico

Documents

Anna Marriott & Kate Gooding, 2007, Social Assistance and Disability in Developing Countries
 
Sightsavers International, 2007, Social assistance and disability: initial learning

Legislation on Cash Transfer Programmes: Selected Countries

Links

Cash Transfer Projects in Humanitarian Aid

Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL/ECLAC)

Economic Policy Research Institute (EPRI South Africa)

HelpAge International – Social Protection Research

HelpAge International – Pension Watch

Inter-American Development Bank (IADB/BID) – Social Protection & Safety Nets

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

International Labour Organisation (ILO) - Social Protection

Overseas Development Institute (ODI) - Cash Transfers

Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme (RHVP) - Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe

Save the Children

The World Bank - Safety Nets and Cash Transfers

Centro de Informação e Intercâmbio sobre Extensão da Proteção Social nos Países de Língua Portuguesa