Challenges in social protection - an interview with Santiago Levy
Channel: UNU-WIDER
Date: 2015-12-02

In this interview Santiago Levy of the Inter-American Development Bank talks about the Mexican experience of conditional cash transfers and underlines the importance of human capital development in such schemes.

He argues that poverty programmes should not be a permanent budget item, but a means of helping households to transition out of poverty and break the inter-generational transition of poverty. After basic levels of well-being are secured, the next challenge is better jobs and higher household incomes.