The Philippines is experimenting with a conditional cash transfer program to help the poorest.
Mr. O'Brien urges that "all recipients in a cash transfer program should be required to have a checking account at a federally insured bank".
The nation's finance minister, Palaniappan Chidambaram, described the cash transfer program to Indian news media as a "pioneering and pathbreaking reform" that is a "game changer for governance".
To compare effects, the government also set up a parallel conditional cash transfer program that paid only if students did enroll in school.
The great promise of the cash transfer program — as well as its greatest point of contention — would come if it tackled India's expensive and inefficient system for handing out food and subsidized fuel through nearly 50,000 government shops.
Mr. Bloomberg also added a conditional cash transfer program, modeled on a program in Mexico and privately financed by foundations, which rewarded families with cash for specific behaviors related mainly to health and education.
"The goods cost too much compared to the benefit people accrue, so it's better to take the money you were going to spend on shipping and turn it into a cash transfer program".
In this paper, we estimate the impact on female labor force participation of a massive conditional cash transfer program—Universal Child Allowance, AUH launched in Argentina in 2009.
The United States is now considering how best to reform its primary long-term disability cash transfer program, Social Security Disability Insurance (DI).
The United States has no first-tier, universal needs-based cash transfer program that provides a guaranteed social minimum income floor to all its citizens.
This study provides evidence for significant benefits of an unconditional cash transfer program for language development in very young children in rural areas.
