Assisting the poor with cash : design and implementation of social transfer programs : Transferencias directas en efectivo (Spanish)

This paper surveys that cash transfers are the preferred means of assistance to the poor, or those who face a probable risk. There are few statutory cash assistance schemes in developing countries, and those that exist tend to convey a small entitlement. Statutory cash assistance and insurance schemes are more common in transition and middle-income states. Cash transfer programs are less likely to distort prices than in-kind transfer programs, and...
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  • Tabor,Steven R.;

  • 2002/09/01

  • Working Paper (Numbered Series)

  • 25298

  • 1

  • 1

  • World,

  • Other,

  • 2010/07/01

  • Disclosed

  • Transferencias directas en efectivo

  • Cash transfer

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Citation

Tabor,Steven R..

Assisting the poor with cash : design and implementation of social transfer programs : Transferencias directas en efectivo (Spanish). Social Protection discussion paper series ; no. SP 0223 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/137331468141580420

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