But the study indicates that cash transfer programs are not a cure-all, either.
Conditional cash transfer programs, as they are known, have gained some popular support but there are only a few signs that they are working.
A World Bank study found that there is a direct link between cash transfer programs and voting patterns, with beneficiaries strongly supporting the party that gave them money.
There isn't a long track record with oil-to-cash programs, but more than 40 countries have some kind of cash transfer programs for the poor.
The Joint Learning Initiative on Children and H.I.V./AIDS, which brought together dozens of international experts to review hundreds of studies, this year strongly endorsed programs that give the poorest families modest financial support, including cash transfer programs like Malawi's.
On Monday night, prime minister Tony Abbott dropped more pre-budget bombshells, flagging an end to several cash transfer programs, the abandonment of the prior government's school funding plans and longer-term pension reform.
Ms. Gibbs and other city officials cautioned that the report released on Tuesday reflected only initial results, and said that they were in line with other early results from similar conditional cash transfer programs in Latin America.
Second, the results suggest that cash transfer programs could potentially help us to increase educational mobility.
Unlike the AUH, other cash transfer programs in Argentina were typically triggered by a socioeconomic emergency.
Others point to the potential for unintended consequences of cash transfer programs.
Cash transfer programs (CTs) have been rigorously evaluated since their inception in the 1990s.
