N. Kakwani et al., Working Paper 9, UNDP International Poverty Centre, 2005. This study provides an ex-ante assessment of the implementation of a cash transfer programme conditional on school attendance in 15 sub-Saharan African countries. Conditional cash transfer programmes have been tried in other regions, notably Latin America, with relative success. The authors investigate both the impact of a cash transfer on poverty and the impact of conditioning the transfer on school attendance.