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From Social Assistance to Social Development: Targeted Education Subsidies in Developing Countries
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ABOUT THE BOOK
Samuel Morley and David Coady demonstrate how a promising new alternative to standard donor-financed education programs—the conditioned transfer for education (CTE) program—can advance both poverty reduction and education goals at the same time. CTE programs meet the immediate needs of the poorest families by providing cash or food but only on the condition that they keep their children in school. These transfers reduce poverty in the short run, and the additional education of the children of poor families breaks the long-run cycle of poverty by increasing their earning potential.
The book compiles a vast amount of unpublished and published material on existing CTE programs and their impact on poverty. Groundbreaking case studies and detailed evaluations of programs in Mexico, Brazil, Bangladesh, Nicaragua, Honduras, and Chile add up to an unusual and surprising success story for skeptics of development and foreign aid.
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Samuel Morley is a visiting research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). Before joining IFPRI, he served as a senior advisor at the Inter-American Development Bank and as a professor of economics at Vanderbilt University for more than 15 years. He has written extensively on Latin America, labor economics, and inequality.
David Coady is a research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). He has been involved in IFPRI's evaluation of Mexico's human capital and targeted cash transfer program, Programa de Educación, Salud y Alimentación (Progresa). Before joining IFPRI in 1998, he was a lecturer in economics at Queen Mary and Westfield College (1995-98) and University College London (1992-95), as well as a research officer at the London School of Economics.
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READ THE BOOK ONLINE
This book is available in PDF format. These files are available in "Read Only" format only, and cannot be printed.
Front matter, Table of Contents, Preface, Acknowledgements
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