Cash transfers: affordability and sustainability

Abstract

rawing on case studies in Kenya, Malawi and Zambia, this paper explores the affordability and sustain -ability of providing cash transfers to alleviate poverty. The paper reviews cash trans -fer programme coverage and costs, the fiscal implications of programme extension to cover all eligible beneficiaries, the extent of national government resource allocation to cash trans -fers, the role of donor funding and perceptions of affordability and prospects for the sustain -ability of cash transfer programming. The case studies were part of a three-year study on cash transfers by ODI, funded by the Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation .

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