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Conditional cash transfer ( CCT) programs aim to reduce poverty by making welfare programs conditional upon the receivers' actions. The government (or a charity) only transfers the money to persons who meet certain criteria. These criteria may include enrolling children into public schools, getting regular check-ups at the doctor's office ...
Oportunidades. Oportunidades ( English: Opportunities; later rebranded as Prospera and more recently as Bienestar) is a government social assistance program in Mexico founded in 2002, based on a previous program called Solidaridad, created in 1988 and renamed Progresa in 1997. [1] It is designed to target poverty by providing cash payments to ...
The Conditional Cash Transfer Program (CCT) provides financial assistance to impoverished individuals to support their basic needs and education. The Government Enterprise and Empowerment Program (GEEP) is a micro-lending investment program targeting entrepreneurs, with a particular focus on young people and women.
Cash transfer. A cash transfer is a direct transfer payment of money to an eligible person. [1] Cash transfers are either unconditional cash transfers or conditional cash transfers. They may be provided by organisations funded by private donors, or a local or regional government. [2]
The Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) is a federal unconditional cash transfer poverty reduction program in Pakistan. Launched in July 2008, it was the largest single social safety net program in the country with nearly Rs. 90 billion ($900 million) distributed to 5.4 million beneficiaries in 2016. [ 3]
Under this program, poorer families receive a direct cash payment via a government issued debit card. Bolsa Família is a conditional cash transfer program, meaning that beneficiaries receive their aid if they accomplish certain actions. Families who receive the aid must put their children in school and participate in vaccination programs.
Universal basic income ( UBI) [ note 1] is a social welfare proposal in which all citizens of a given population regularly receive a minimum income in the form of an unconditional transfer payment, i.e., without a means test or need to work. [ 2][ 3][ 4] In contrast a guaranteed minimum income is paid only to those who do not already receive an ...
Bolsa Família was the largest conditional cash transfer program in the world, though the Mexican Oportunidades was the first nationwide program of this kind. [4] Bolsa Família has been mentioned as one factor contributing to the reduction of poverty in Brazil, which fell 27.7% during the first term in the administration of Lula. [5]