A lead economist in the World Bank’s poverty reduction and economic management department of the East Asia and the Pacific Region on Tuesday clarified that the conditional cash transfer (CCT) program is not an anti-poverty scheme.

Rogier Van den Brink explained during The Manila Times’ 3rd Business Forum in Manila that the CCT, otherwise known as the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps), enables poor Filipino families to send their children to school and to afford their medical and health needs.

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