Editing Transfer payment (section)

=== Cash ===
{{Main|Cash transfer}}
More than 100 million people worldwide receive a government transfer payment.{{Citation needed|date=September 2021}} Examples of payments can be social aids to alleviate poverty or social insurance benefits by participating in social security systems. It is estimated that 90% of high-income nations make these payments via electronic transfer methods, whereas over half of the world's developing countries utilizes paper payments such as cash or checks.{{Citation needed|date=September 2021}} Transfer payment via cash is the most popular method of transferring benefits to beneficiaries. However, cash transfer programs are constrained by three factors: financial resources, institutional capacity, and ideology, particularly in countries in the [[Global South]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Slater|first=Rachel|last2=Farrington|first2=John|date=November 27, 2009|title=Cash Transfers: Targeting|url=http://217.161.13.39/resources/details.asp?id=3505&title=social-cash-transfers-targeting-project-briefing|journal=Overseas Development Institute|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110704190817/http://217.161.13.39/resources/details.asp?id=3505&title=social-cash-transfers-targeting-project-briefing|archive-date=July 4, 2011}}</ref> Many governments in poorer countries, where cash transfers could potentially have the most impressive impact, are often unwilling to implement such programmes due to fears of [[inflation]] and more importantly, [[Dependency theory|dependency]] on the transfers.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=McCord|first=Anna|date=November 2009|title=Cash Transfers and Political Economy in Sub-Saharan Africa|url=http://217.161.13.39/resources/details.asp?id=3509&title=cash-transfers-political-economy-sub-saharan-africa-project-briefing|journal=Overseas Development Institute|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110704191415/http://217.161.13.39/resources/details.asp?id=3509&title=cash-transfers-political-economy-sub-saharan-africa-project-briefing|archive-date=2011-07-04}}</ref>