PHM-Exch> From Social Safety Net to Social Policy?

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC) <ruglucia at paho.org>
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 *From Social Safety Net to Social Policy?*

*The role of conditional cash transfers in welfare state development in
Latin America

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*Francesca Bastagli*

Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE), London School of Economics
and Political Science

*Working Paper number 60 December, 2009* -*International Policy Centre for
Inclusive Growth (IPC - IG)*

Poverty Practice, Bureau for Development Policy, UNDP

Available online PDF [35p.] at:
http://www.ipc-undp.org/pub/IPCWorkingPaper60.pdf



“…….During the 1990s, conditional cash transfers (CCTs) were adopted by
countries across Latin America as central elements of their poverty
reduction strategies. Alongside other developments in the area of social
assistance, conditional cash transfers CCTs represent an opportunity for
countries to develop an integrated and inclusive set of social policies.



At the same time, particular conditional cash transfers CCT features risk
promoting the further residualisation and fragmentation of safety nets.
Drawing on the experience of six countries in Latin America, [Colombia –
Chile - Honduras – Nicaragua - Brazil – Mexico] - this paper identifies the
variations and recent trends in conditional cash transfers CCT design and
implementation.

Based on this review, it considers the contribution of conditional cash
transfers CCTs to the potential transition from a largely absent or minimal
safety net to a coordinated system of social policies…”
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