Conditional Cash Transfer

The impact of conditional cash transfer on early childhood development. “Globally, an estimated of 165 million children under-five years of age, or 26% were recorded as stunted in 2011 ”. Underdevelopment of children usually associated with poor stimulating home environments which affect the children’s growth (Powell et al., 2004). Many development programs have addressed this issue and the popular program is the conditional cash transfer (CCT). Fiszbein et al. (2009; 1) define CCT as the “programs that transfer cash, generally to poor households, on the condition that those households make prespecified investments in the human capital of their children”. This paper will analyse the impact of Nicaragua’s CCT program (Atencion a Crisis) on…

the quantitative measures of conditional cash transfers are successful, but the qualitative analysis of conditional cash transfer programmes remain disputed. Human capital accumulation can be defined as the development of a set of skills and characteristics leading to the eventual increase education, health and productivity (Galor and Moav: 1999). Human capital accumulation is considered a central driver of growth in the process of social and economic development. CCT’s are an initiative have…

IS THE CASH TRANSFER A SUSTAINABLE STRATEGY FOR POVERTY ALLEVIATION? - A CASE STUDY OF LEAP PROGRAMME IN GHANA. THESIS SUBMITTED TO BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENT FOR THE PROFESSIONAL DEGREE OF INTERNATIONAL MASTERS OF BUSINESS ADMINISTARTION BY KEVIN ELIKEM KOFIGAH SUPERVISOR: - PROFESSOR TU QIN 10TH JULY 2015 ABSTRACT Developing countries in their quest to lessen the harsh realities and incidence of poverty amongst…

earners. This made it easier to justify high levels of social expenditure. Yet a significant proportion of social security expenditure was spent on the generous pensions for the civil service (Clarify and reference). The economy was highly dependent on exports and the tax base was largely derived from taxing imports. During a short economic upswing in the 1988 ‘the efforts to reform the highly unequal pension system faced entrenched stakeholders and entitlements locked into the 1988 constitution…

single mother had more children she was viewed as irresponsible and promiscuous (Stern et al (2012). These ideas undermined the parenting of single mothers because if they had more children they did not receive any additional cash assistance. The next area that Welfare reform changes affected single mothers is their…

assistance. The United States government spends $131.9 billion on welfare annually, not including food stamps and unemployment. $1 trillion annually are spent throughout all 83 government assistance programs. All people receiving government assistance should be drug tested randomly to prove that they truly need the help and that they are not just using and abusing the system. Welfare is government programs that help and provide money and services to families or individual people in need.…

program get their sense of responsibility muted causing dependency on the government. The government does not give its users a limit of how many people they will provide for, causing them to have bigger families in return for more money. There is a misuse of government grants and aids, and many abuse the money received. Welfare is intended to be an aid for the citizens who have an actual need for it while they become financially stable. The government needs to change the program for better use…

Racism Racial inequality and its relationship to social injustice in America is overwhelmingly interwoven into the premise of all three narratives of ‘Just Mercy,’ ‘Nobody,’ and ‘$2.00 a Day’. Just Mercy’s Bryan Stevenson exposes some of these disparities woven around his presentation of the Walter McMillian case, and the overrepresentation of African-American men in our criminal justice system. Stevenson’s (2014) accounts of actors within the criminal justice system such as Judge Robert E.…

Barbara Ehrenreich’s book Nickel and Dimed illuminates the issues that are surrounded by being an individual that experiences poverty. This essay will take the information that was provided by Ehrenreich’s experience and compare it to social welfare policy in the United states to see if it is helping those who are affected by poverty. The essay will also consider the ideology that surrounds the government and if that has any effect on the social welfare state in the current era. Social welfare…

A Welfare Debate When the United States of America first began, there were small villages with men and women of varying degrees of wealth. Like any society, there will always be people who have little money and poor living conditions, better known as poverty. In the colonies of the new world the church and the neighbors of those in poverty put food on their plates and improved their lives in many ways so they could prosper. These acts of kindness were a great help to the poor but became less…