Weekly Report - 14 June 2018 (WR-18-23)

HONDURAS | Progress in poverty reduction. At the end of last month, the Honduran government led by President Juan Orlando Hernández published the findings of a recent 14-month study carried out by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). The IDB study found that as a result of the Bono Vida Mejor conditional cash transfer (CCT) scheme, poverty rates fell from 71.8% to 59.6% from 2016-17 among 2,900 families.

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