The experience of conditional cash transfers in Latin America and the Caribbean

Development Policy Review

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 513-536

  Handa, Sudhanshu ^a   Davis, Benjamin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY; HUMAN CAPITAL; REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT; RURAL DEVELOPMENT;

CENTRAL AMERICA; LATIN AMERICA;

EID: 33747340248     PISSN: 09506764     EISSN: 14677679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7679.2006.00345.x     Document Type: Article

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