“How do you indentify the poor?” This is how Casilda Lasso de la Vega from the Universidad del Pais Vasco began her presentation at the NCID weekly seminar. She discussed many previous studies of poverty including Amartya Sen’s 1976 seminal paper in which methodology and aggregative measurements are considered to be the most important elements to measure poverty.
“Even though in recent times there is considerable agreement that poverty is a multidimensional phenomenon, the approach suggested by Sen should still be followed”, Casilda urged, adding that “now, two cutoffs...
Sergio Daga policy analyst from the Heritage Foundation answers the NCID questions about his current and future research.
Why did you decide to focus your research on the Conditional Cash Transfers (CCT) programs?
CCT has been called “the new way for social programs” in Latin America and the reason why I decided to explain a little bit more about this issue is because in Bolivia, where I am from, CCT programs are very aggressive in media and are very popular. I and a friend wanted to investigate and an...
Sergio Daga a policy analyst from The Heritage Foundation gave a seminar on Conditional Cash Transfers (CCT); an idea originally from Alaska. CCTs are government funded social assistance programs that aim to distribute cash to the poor on condition that they participate in certain government programs like sending children to public schools or seeking treatment in public hospitals. They are the most common type of social assistance intervention in many emerging and less developed economies, especially in Latin America, and more recently in Africa and Asia. They are popular since distributing...