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Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs seek
to combine short term poverty alleviation with
long-term poverty reduction by promoting human
capital accumulation among children in low income
households. They do so by transferring cash to
poor households conditional on these households
enrolling their children in school and taking
them for regular visits to health care providers.
How critical is conditioning? Can systems of
social transfers that do not involve conditions
be equally effective in promoting poverty reduction?
These dilemmas are often presented as a debate
on 'to condition or not'.
This session will seek to address the dilemma
of whether (or when) to condition. Starting from
an analytical perspective, the panelists will
reflect on the 'pros' and 'cons' of conditioning.
They will put particular emphasis on the 'conditions'
under which conditioning should be considered.
Panelists
- Miguel Székeley,
formerly with Mexican Ministry of Finance: "For
Conditioning"
- Michael Samson,
Economic Policy Research Institute, South Africa:
“Are conditionalities necessary for
Human Development?”
Chair
- Ariel Fiszbein,
World Bank
Rapporteur
- Ana Revenga, World
Bank
- Rapporteur Notes:
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