PANTAWID PAMILYANG PILIPINO PROGRAM (4Ps) Case Study

This decision was based on research conducted by social science analysis, which proved to have worked. According to the research, mothers tend to invest in their children’s education, healthcare and nutritional needs more than any other parent. Therefore, it made logical sense to have the mothers’ be responsible and eligible for the cash grants. In this choice, positivity seemed to have been the outcome. Child health improved in the Progresa areas. For example, children under 5 years of age in Progresa, who were required to seek well-child care and received nutritional support, had a 12% lower incidence of illness than children not included in the program (Levine, 2007, p. 70). In regards to education, enrollment grew for the girls and the boys while child labor decreased significantly. Nutritionally, the children in the program had less sickness or

Cash assistance is provided to individuals in order to obtain goods and services directly without third party involvement. In order to meet the eligibility criteria for cash, an individual must be absent of assets, resources and little to no income available. Cash assistance is a way to provide immediate assistance to ensure the need is met as well as encourage personal responsibility. If you take the choice and responsibility from a consumer, they will feel enslaved by the system and exert feelings of hopelessness to overcome poverty. Chambers and Bonk(2013) states the following, " the cost of the family is a lack of consumer autonomy, and that makes a family even more dependent and less able to cope with the stresses of life" (pg. 70) The concern that ought to be addressed is the uncertainty that cash is utilized for the main purpose of the proposed benefit. Chambers and Bonk (2015), discussed the benefit of utilizing cash to encourage consumer's personal responsibility and purchasing power. At the same time, a payment in cash directly benefits the merchant as well as increases the buying power for the recipient. (pg. 65) In this example, both the recipient and the merchant gain from the usage of cash. The downside of providing hard benefits (cash) is the difficulty of closely monitoring this intervention that can

Cash Aid is for the people who need help with their children to support them and for those who do not have children they will apply for General Assistance. People always think that there is no help for their problems that they have but there is always a solutions to every problem a people has to deal with. Some people are afraid to apply for cash aid because they will go after the father for child support, but in reality it is what best for the child, and for those who are afraid to apply for general assistance it is only because they will have to pay the money back and this program helps the person look for a job while they are receiving the money. According to

From 1996 to 2011, poverty was on the rise in U.S households with children. A means-tested transfer program will be utilized to discuss the findings. The World Bank defined “Extreme poverty” as global poverty: a person which only earns about $2.00 dollars per day. By using 1996 to 2008 information that was provided by Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), it was estimated by mid-2011, on any given month, about 1.65 million households were living in conditions that were considered to be extreme poverty with 3.55 million being children and this is based on the cash income. In households where children lived with non-elderly parents, accounted for 4.3 percent. Since 1996 extreme poverty has sharply risen, because of the 1996 welfare

Conditional Cash Transfers follow the basic foundation of defining who receives grants, how the money is divided, and what conditions are required. In figuring out which families are eligible for CCT, interventions occur in establishing a range of income families must earn in order to receive these grants. Considering that a majority of Latin Americans live in

Social welfare polices dates back to almost fifty years. Throughout those years the real question was, what is social welfare policies? What is interesting about social welfare policies is that, one person’s classification or belief may differ from that of another’s. Due to varying viewpoints of US citizens, throughout the history of the United States, Social Welfare Policies have been subject to many changes. It has grown, shrunk, stabilized, and even deteriorated. The authors of Introduction to Social Work stated that, “Social welfare policies are the services and programs made available to certain people for a specified period of time, based on established criteria” (Cox et al, 2016). In simpler terms, social welfare policies are social

What is us welfare- welfare is financial support given to those in need, through any of the 80ish programs that are available the most popular are Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)

Social policy is, in essence, a government action aimed at providing a basic level of

"Conditional cash transfer programs is poverty alleviation programs that which provide funds to children's actions such as school attendance, their performance and also health care (BoBonis)". The levels of female investment of household resource for their children after divorce. Divorce could increase as a woman greater economic independence. Government transfer programs which is recognized on marital transitions on welfare policies across developed countries it has mostly been examined in middle and low income countries. When a child is growing up in a single parent household it has an effect on the child education

The cornerstone of these social welfare programs was the Social Security Act of 1935. This was the first time that the United States Government used federal and public funds to meet the welfare needs of the people. This insured that the elderly and the disabled could maintain at least a minimum standard of living. Social Security is post retirement insurance. It is financed through payroll taxes on wages. Benefits are to be paid directly from the federal government to individuals who are over the age of 62, disabled persons, or to children of deceased or disabled parents. (SSA)

When governments provide in-kind support, it usually costs more to process and deliver that support than it would to distribute money, for a similar or lesser impact. Kenny shares, “At less cost to the government, cash programs led to the same health outcomes as food-based programs, but also provided additional resources for recipients to spend on schooling, medicine, and transport.” The author notes that cash has a larger multiplier effect, being that each dollar provided by a cash transfer circulated 2.59 times around the local economy before being spent elsewhere. Additionally, cash transfers can lead to productive investments as well. Overall, Charles Kenny feels strongly that cash transfers can help America

Ultimately, a policy can be equitable and politically feasible, but costs remain key to their successful adoption. Consequently, it is important to consider to economic cost. For cash transfer programs, the most relevant measurements include labor costs, tax incidence, and government expenditures. Together, these categories describe the total cost imposed on the economy as a result of a cash transfer program.

Poverty is not a simple issue. There is no universal response to it. Latin America is among the poorest of the poor. Most of its population lives in absolute poverty. Poverty is a structural problem in Latin America. Over the past three decades, there have been multiple different options offered to the poor of Latin America to better their lives. To name a few, immigration, drug gangs, informal work, and conditional cash transfers have been presented to them. The last of those four, conditional cash transfers, is the one that gives poor Latin Americans the best hope for a better life.

The cash component itself it is very important regarding the CCT’s outcome on children especially the ones living in extreme poverty. First of all the additional cash to the family allows the household to have better purchasing power and therefore, gives the family the ability to buy medicines, better quality food, spend more money on school and health materials. By meeting the basic needs for human survival there is a reduced likelihood that a child will be exposed to infection or malnutrition. The Cash transfers also provide cognitive stimulation to the

Thus, Mark's forte is the Filipino perspective, as he spent the majority of the time in East Asia there, and became embedded to the culture with his marriage. Throughout his interview he discusses a very wide range of topics, however, the Macros dictatorship in the Philippines, the lack of educational opportunities beyond fifth grade, the prior lack of any modern conveniences, and how there is a global movement of Westernization are discussed as following.