Abstract:

This article attempts to critically discuss the relation between the gendered nature of poverty and outputs of Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programme of Turkey, a poverty reduction programme that has been designed to break the intergenerational transmission of poverty by investing long-term development of human capital in poor families since the CCT programme is argued to have a strong gender perspective. Therefore, this article will first address the discussions on relation between poverty and gender from the perspective of feminisation of poverty and gendered poverty approaches which are used synonymously in this article. Later, the article will attempt to picture gendered nature of poverty in Turkey using various resources. This article will be concluded a critical discussion on whether or not the CCT programme in Turkey could be a significant remedy to the problems caused by gendered nature of poverty.

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