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Tag: Conditional cash transfers

Do conditional cash transfers improve education outcomes? Insights from the PESP program in Bangladesh

In 2001, Bangladesh launched a Primary Education Stipend Program (PESP) that provides a conditional cash transfer (CCT) to beneficiary mothers. The cash transfer depends on the student maintaining a specific attendance rate and grades at the school. MSC conducted a mixed-method research to ascertain the PESP program’s effectiveness in achieving its objectives. We examined if CCTs can help attain better educational outcomes in terms of increased attendance and grades with lower dropout rates. It simultaneously examines similar studies undertaken elsewhere to support the hypothesis.

Sep 15, 2022

Aakash Mehrotra, Arshi Aadil, Lakshay Jain and Neeraja Sundar

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Sep 15, 2022

Aakash Mehrotra, Arshi Aadil, Lakshay Jain and Neeraja Sundar

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Opinion | Designing financial products for women

Current financial service models conflate women with ‘family’, considering them merely an avenue to pursue social welfare

Oct 24, 2020

Abhishek Gupta and Akhand Tiwari

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Oct 24, 2020

Abhishek Gupta and Akhand Tiwari

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G2P for Financial Inclusion: A Job Half Done

Direct Benefit Transfer program was thought to be effective method of achieving goal of financial inclusion. Its effectiveness was thought to be an outcome of necessity of making payments to individual bank accounts and also because of regularity of payments. However, due to operational issues its progress does not inspire much hope. At best DBT […]

Nov 2, 2018

Lokesh Singh

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Nov 2, 2018

Lokesh Singh

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Designing Beneficiary-Centric ‘Direct Benefit Transfer’ Programmes: Lessons from India – Part II

This Policy Note Part II, details out the “Seven Steps of DBT Programme Design” for a robust and beneficiary centric direct benefit transfer programme.

Sep 23, 2016

Arshi Aadil, Lokesh Singh, Ritesh Rautela, Rridhee Malhotra and Vijay Ravi

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Sep 23, 2016

Arshi Aadil, Lokesh Singh, Ritesh Rautela, Rridhee Malhotra and Vijay Ravi

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Designing Beneficiary-Centric ‘Direct Benefit Transfer’ Programmes: Lessons from India – Part I

This Note as a first part of the two-step series explains the pre-requisites and the steps, which if followed, can help in implementation of successful government DBT programmes.

Sep 19, 2016

Arshi Aadil, Lokesh Singh, Ritesh Rautela, Rridhee Malhotra and Vijay Ravi

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Sep 19, 2016

Arshi Aadil, Lokesh Singh, Ritesh Rautela, Rridhee Malhotra and Vijay Ravi

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Financial inclusion histories

Sharing his views, Ignacio Mas talks about the historical reference that relates to contemporary discussions of financial inclusion.

Oct 9, 2014

Ignacio Mas

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Oct 9, 2014

Ignacio Mas

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