Cash in the City: Emerging Lessons from Implementing Cash Transfers in Urban Africa
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Main Author: Gentilini, Ugo (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C The World Bank 2021
Series:Social Protection and Labor Discussion Papers
Links:https://doi.org/10.1596/35003
Abstract:Poverty and crises are rapidly "urbanizing". Yet experience with operationalizing cash transfers in urban areas is limited. This paper captures early lessons from a new generation of urban cash transfer responses to Covid-19 in eleven African countries. The analysis contextualizes such initiatives within a longer-term trajectory of urban social protection programs from the early 2000s. A range of lessons emerge around design and implementation, partnerships, institutions and political economy, strategic issues, and evidence and learning
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource
DOI:10.1596/35003