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  1. The cash dividend: The rise of cash transfer programs in Sub-Saharan Africa

    This book provides the results of an investigation of the recent use of cash transfer programs in Sub-Saharan Africa. The review was aimed toward understanding the evolution and current state of the programs, their intended uses, and the unique challenges associated with using cash transfer...
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  2. Improving food security. A systematic review of the impact of interventions in agricultural production, value chains, market regulation, and land security

    In order to support future food security policy making, the OECD Development Aid Committee (DAC) EvalNet meeting in 2010 expressed the need for a systematic review of recent evaluations and other research that would provide evidence-based information on successful approaches. The Netherlands,...
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  3. Social cash transfers in low-income African countries: Conditional or unconditional

    Conventional wisdom hails Latin American experience with conditional cash transfers (CCTs) as successful, but, to the authors' knowledge, there have been no rigorous analyses of the respective costs and benefits of conditional versus unconditional transfers. The impact of conditionality itself is...
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  4. Promoting social transfers: DFID and the politics of influencing

    This report examines efforts by DFID to promote social transfers and social protection in low and middle-income countries. DFID has strategically positioned itself as a lead donor in this field, helping to establish new policy spaces through which social transfers and social protection could be...
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