Social transfers: stimulating household-level growth. CPRC Policy Brief 14.

From:
Department for International Development
Published
1 January 2010
Document Type:
Briefing
Theme:
Social Change
Authors:
Bach, K.

Abstract

This policy brief emphasises that:

  • evidence shows that large-scale, well-designed social-transfer programmes can support micro-level growth processes;
  • social transfers enable investment in human capital and productive assets, laying the foundations for future growth;
  • social transfers can improve the efficiency of household resource allocation by alleviating vulnerability and by targeting individual household members;
  • the growth effect of social transfer programmes is largely determined by programme design: transfers should be regular and reliable, appropriately channelled and complemented by asset-accumulation and asset-protection interventions.

Citation

CPRC Policy Brief 14, 2 pp.

Social transfers: stimulating household-level growth. CPRC Policy Brief 14.

Published 1 January 2010
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