The vital role of cash transfers in tackling child poverty

Silvia Paruzzolo, Sonali Mukherjee and Yolande Wright

Chapter 11 in Handbook on Child Poverty and Inequality, 2025, pp 178-196 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Cash transfer programming (CTP) has emerged over recent decades as one of the best-evidenced anti-poverty interventions in both humanitarian and development settings. This chapter focuses on how CTP, especially when accompanied by complementary support (i.e. Cash Plus), can effectively contribute to reducing multidimensional child poverty. It provides an introduction to CTP approaches intentionally designed to improve child outcomes and a summary of the key evidence of impacts on child health and nutrition, education, and protection. The chapter also discusses the challenges and opportunities of implementing CTP in humanitarian settings including linkages with longer-term shock-responsive social protection systems. It ends by summarising key conclusions and recommendations, including the importance of filling evidence gaps and focusing on good programme design and quality implementation at scale. The authors finally reiterate the importance of CTP as an instrument to uphold fundamental human rights to social security and an adequate standard of living.

Keywords: Cash transfers; Shock-responsive social protection; Child poverty; Child outcomes; Humanitarian aid; Child benefits (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781802200423
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