Cash Transfers for Poverty Reduction: An International Operational Guide

Over the past 20 years, more than 100 countries have implemented social safety nets, targeted at the poorest and most vulnerable. Impact evaluations have shown the effectiveness of these programmes, and policymakers have explored different methods of delivery, including cash transfers.

Cash Transfers for Poverty Reduction offers the first systematic discussion of the design and implementation of poverty reduction schemes, and cash transfer programmes in particular. The authors also draw on their own practical experienceand present global case studies to show the effects that these decisions have on operations and outcomes.

Featuring end-of-chapter questions and answers to help test your knowledge, this book offers an operational guide for key stakeholders, officials and students in understanding the design, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation of cash transfer programmes.

Francisco Ayala has more than 20 years of experience with the management and design of public project investments in education, health and social safety net, including public works and conditional transfer. Francisco leads the Ayala consulting company in Ecuador.

David Lawson is a Senior Lecturer in Development Economic and Public Policy at The University of Manchester, and Adjunct Professor in Development Studies at The University of Helsinki. He has more than 20 years of developing country public policy experience and has specific research interests in around poverty dynamics health and gender.