Targeting Cash Transfer Programs for an Older Population

Aguila, Emma; Kapteyn, Arie; Tassot, Caroline

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“…Although the OPCT programme is meant to empower the elderly populations [8,16,36], this study found that only a small percentage (7%) of the beneficiaries had invested in small businesses where they could get some additional income. This was attributed to age limitation, lack of education and inadequate funds to make investment.…”

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confidence: 81%

“…Cash transfer programmes are intended for the social protection of vulnerable populations with multifaceted objectives and policies that seek to foster opportunities as well as the capacity of older persons to sustain their lives, and enhance their social status and livelihoods [8]. In other words, cash transfer programs are a reflection of the sort of social security that transfers cash and consumables to the most vulnerable groups, especially the elderly, with the goal of raising their social standing [9,10].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Socio-economic Impact of Old Persons' Cash Transfer in Mulundi Sub-location, Kitui County-Kenya

Muindi¹,

Maithya²,

Wanjala³

2022

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confidence: 81%

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Socio-economic Impact of Old Persons' Cash Transfer in Mulundi Sub-location, Kitui County-Kenya

Muindi¹,

Maithya²,

Wanjala³

2022

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“…Although the OPCT programme is meant to empower the elderly populations (Warring and de la OCampos, 2016;Aguila et al, 2012;Chebii & Oyunge, 2020), this study found that a low percentage of the beneficiaries of the programme (7%) had invested in small businesses where they could get some additional income. This was attributed to age limitation, lack of education and lack of enough funds to make investment.…”

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confidence: 88%

“…Cash transfer programmes are intended for social protection of the vulnerable populations in Africa with multifaceted objectives. Aguila et al, (2012) posits that cash transfer program is a multifaceted combination of actions and policies that seek to foster the opportunities as well as capacity of older persons to sustain their lives, enhance their social status and livelihoods. In other words, cash transfer program mirrors the type of social protection that provides consumption and income transfers to the vulnerable population particularly old people with the aim of enhancing their social status (Willis, 2010;UNDESA, 2013).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Socio-Economic impacts and challenges of Old Person Cash Transfer in Mulundi Sub-Location in Kitui County, Kenya

Muindi¹,

Maithya²,

Barasa³

2022

IJCAB

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Older Persons Cash Transfer (OPCT) was introduced in Kenya in 2006 to provide financial assistance to the elderly people in the country. National budget allocation for the programme as well as enrollment of new beneficiaries have consistently increased over the years but vulnerability among the elderly population still remain high. The study area is located in an arid and semi-arid region, in Kitui County, Kenya that is characterized by limited income generations activities and low food production due to unpredictable weather. The aim of this study was to assess the socio-economic impacts of Older Persons Cash Transfer (OPCT) on the beneficiaries living in Mulundi sub-Location, Kitui County, Kenya. This study adopted a cross-sectional mixed methods approach to investigate the impacts of OPCT using both quantitative and qualitative data. A census survey was applied to undertake household study for all the 113 registered OPCT beneficiaries in Mulundi sub-location. The study found that female beneficiaries were more (58%) than men (42%) where majority of female beneficiaries were widowed (53%) and 72% were in the age between 65 and 75 years old. Apart from the few elderly (21%) who had alternative sources of income, majority (79%) depended on OPCT as the main source of income for their upkeep. Most of beneficiaries used the cash to buy food (44%), and pay school fees for their dependants (30%) while others spent on health care (12%) and buying clothing (10%). Due to age limit 32% of the elderly rarely got involved in the community development activities compared to 25% who totally were never involved. Majority of the beneficiaries felt that the monthly stipend allocation to each beneficiary was not adequate to cater for most of their needs. In line with that opinion, majority of the beneficiaries (57%) were not satisfied with the programme. This study established several challenges hindering realization of socio-economic impacts of cash transfer in the study area which included; inadequate and irregular disbursement of grants, management challenges, lack of clear channel for the beneficiaries to express their grievances and complaints, increased cost of living, and lack of transparency in the programme. This study recommends that appropriate measures should be put to investigate on the challenges to enhance management so that socio-economic benefits of the programme can be achieved.

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“…Besides, the choice of the covariates may be a substantial driver of the e¢ ciency of transfer schemes, as investigated in many papers (e.g., in Aguila, Kapteyn andTassot, 2012, for Mexico, andBah et al, 2014, for Indonesia). Kleven and Kopczuk (2011) show how the practical complexity of the selection rules of actual social programs can be analyzed for improving screening applicants.…”

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Optimal transfers with distribution regressions: An application to Egypt at the dawn of the XXIst century

Müller

2016

WIDER Working Paper

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Targeting Cash Transfer Programs for an Older Population

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Socio-economic Impact of Old Persons' Cash Transfer in Mulundi Sub-location, Kitui County-Kenya

Socio-economic Impact of Old Persons' Cash Transfer in Mulundi Sub-location, Kitui County-Kenya

Socio-Economic impacts and challenges of Old Person Cash Transfer in Mulundi Sub-Location in Kitui County, Kenya

Optimal transfers with distribution regressions: An application to Egypt at the dawn of the XXIst century

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