Abstract:IPC One Pager #44, “Growing Pains”, argues that cash transfer programmes should become a permanent feature of social protection in developing countries. This One Pager takes that logic further, advocating a universal income grant as a foundation for basic economic security (see Standing 2007). Such an approach views targeting and conditionalities as both unnecessary and counter-productive. (...)

Keywords:Conditional Cash Transfers, Targeting, Conditionalities, Fail

Publication Date:19 December 2007

Type/Issue:One Pager/47

ISSN:2318-9118