1 October 2018
The Role of Cash Transfers in Social Protection, Humanitarian Response and Shock-Responsive Social Protection
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Cash transfers have expanded rapidly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) around the world in the past decade. The contexts in which they are implemented have also diversified; while cash transfers were mostly adopted initially as central elements of social protection systems, they have become increasingly popular as a core component of humanitarian response.