Hebatallah Ghoneim

Anti - poverty policy in Egypt : Food subsidy or conditional cash transfer / Hebatallah Ghoneim ; Supervised Guenter Lang , Peter Baltes - Cairo : Hebatallah Ghoneim , 2013 - 287 Leaves ; 30cm

Thesis (Ph.D.) - German University - Faculty of Postgraduate Studies and Scientific Research - Department of Economics

Conditional cash transfers (CCT) are programs that terget alleviating poverty through cash provision and human capital improvement. These programs have been initiated in Brazil and Mexico, but have extended to be a global wave. Latin American countries have successfully substituted food subsidy programs with CCT, which created an incentive for other developing countries to follow