Conditional Cash Transfer Programs and India
Arakali, Shuvya
A Conditional Cash Transfer Program (CCT) is a type of social safety net program that originated in Latin America during the early 1990's. It is unique in that it targets the two major drivers of structural poverty: education and health. CCTs involve a cash transfer to beneficiaries only if they routinely send their children to school and health clinics. The rationale behind this concept is that investing in human capital will not only relieve...