What is social cash transfer?

Social cash transfers are a kind of social assistance - means-tested monetary public support of poor people - or (less frequently) pension-type benefits without means test.

Ruth is just one of many examples of the positive impacts of cash transfers in the country. Working to reduce poverty levels and its intergenerational transfer, the

Social protection has significant positive impacts for poor and vulnerable children and their families. Cash transfers – regular, predictable payments of cash - are

This 'social assistance' can be cash or it can be a number of other things, or a brief highlights a number of social transfer programmes currently in operation in

The major recent innovation in policy responses to poverty in sub-Saharan Africa has been social cash transfer (SCT) schemes which disburse cash to poor

One such approach is social cash transfers. This entails the long term, regular transfer of cash by a government to a broad sector of the population in a form such as a pension, child benefit or family grant. This helps to demonstrate the Government's ability to reach its people.

In 2018 social cash transfer programmes accounted for over half of all social protection spending worldwide.11 They are increasingly considered

The social cash transfer (SCT) programme introduced in Zambia in 2003 reduces extreme poverty rate by just 1.55 percentage points and has a very small effect

By P Arruda — government-run social protection programme established to tackle this problem is the Social Cash Transfer (SCT), an unconditioned.