Cash transfers: what does the evidence say?

Abstract

Cash transfers have been increasingly adopted by countries worldwide as central elements of their social protection and poverty reduction strategies. This rigorous review of the impact of cash transfers is the largest and most comprehensive review of its kind to date. It consolidates and assesses the body of evidence from 2000 to 2015, covering low- and middle-income countries worldwide, to provide policy-makers, practitioners and researchers with a single resource on the most rigorous and up-to-date evidence available. The review covers the intended and unintended impact on individuals and households of non-contributory cash transfer programmes on 6 areas: monetary poverty education health and nutrition savings, investment and production employment empowerment The outputs are: the full report; annexes to the report; annnotated bibliography; summary policy briefing; briefing paper on gender-related findings. There is also a journal article in ‘Journal of Social Policy’ published online 10 Oct 2018