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"Nutrition is remarkably
responsive to the receipt of such grant income (perhaps because it is directed
to women)."
South Africa's Child Support Grant
Programme has targeted child support payments to children's caregivers (who are
almost exclusively women).
Direct Link to Working Paper:
International
Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG) - UNDP
We announce the launch of the IPC Working Paper #39, “The Impact of Unconditional Cash Transfers on Nutrition: The South African Child Support Grant”. The authors, Jorge Agüero, Michael Carter and Ingrid Woolard, note that, unlike some of the most well known Latin American cash transfer programmes, South Africa’s is unconditional, targeting grants to children’s caregivers (usually women) without any obligations for behavioural change of beneficiaries.
They show that despite the absence of conditions, the programme has been noticeably successful in bolstering early childhood nutrition, as measured by height-for-age statistics.
Moreover, in contrast to findings common in the literature on a weak relationship between income and nutrition, they find that nutrition is remarkably responsive to the receipt of such grant income (perhaps because it is directed to women).
They also show that the projected future adult earnings of these children significantly exceeds the current costs of the Child Support Grant.
This Working Paper is part of the IPC Research
Programme on “Cash
Transfers and Social Protection”.
Other IPC publications at: http://www.undp-povertycentre.org/ipcpublications.htm
International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG)
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