Using social transfers to improve human development

DEPARTMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (DFID)

Publication Date 

February 2006
8 p

This note provides an introduction to how social transfers - particularly cash transfers and vouchers - can improve human development, particularly for the extreme poor and socially excluded

Series:Social Protection Briefing Note Series Number 3 

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http://www.gsdrc.org/docs/open/sp19.pdf

Keywords 

Cross-cutting; policy; Development/ Humanitarian; development in general; Disability and social diversity; vulnerable groups; Education; formal education; Global picture; poverty; Health; systems: health workforce; Inclusion; exclusion and discrimination

Regional Focus 

Africa (AFRO)
Pan American (PAHO)
South East Asia (SEARO)

Country focus 

Bangladesh; India; Nicaragua; Mexico; Brazil; Namibia; Somalia; South Africa; Nepal; Zambia; Kenya

Language 

English

Type of material 

text