Poverty Reduction, Education, and the Global Diffusion of Conditional Cash Transfers

Part I. A Best Practice to Reduce Present and Future Poverty

1. Conditional Cash Transfer Programs and the Poverty-Reduction Agenda
Michelle Morais de Sá e Silva

2. The International Diffusion of Conditional Cash Transfers
Michelle Morais de Sá e Silva

3. Framing the Study of CCT Cases
Michelle Morais de Sá e Silva

Part II. The Realities of CCTs in the Global North and the Global South

4. A Conditional Cash Transfer in the Big Apple
Michelle Morais de Sá e Silva

5. Money to Bear the Indirect Costs of Schooling
Michelle Morais de Sá e Silva

6. The Largest Conditional Cash Transfer in the World
Michelle Morais de Sá e Silva

Part III. What Have We Learned?

7. Case Comparison: CCTs’ Divorce from Education Policy and Long Program Lives
Michelle Morais de Sá e Silva

8. Conclusion: What Has the Future Got for This Global Model?
Michelle Morais de Sá e Silva

Keywords: Education, International and Comparative Education, Educational Policy and Politics