Assessment Of The Efforts Of Millennium Development Goals Conditional Cash Transfer Programme On Poverty Alleviation In Edo State

ABSTRACT The proliferation of poverty and global inequality between and within the countries has resulted in an emerging consensus among the actors in the field of international development on the importance of social policies in the process of development. Different policies and structural programmes has, over the years, been instituted as mechanisms for tackling poverty and empowering individuals and one of such recent social policy measures employed by the MDGs is the Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) programme. The idea of CCTs programme was to alleviate poverty on a short term and on a lo…