Other interventions (or mix of policies) might be more cost-effective in the short run. A combination of a universal or regionally targeted (starting with those regions where child poverty is more widespread) cash transfer programme for children aged 0 to 5 years old together with a school-feeding programme in poorer regions might represent an effective way to intervene quickly to improve child well-being. As discussed here, given the same amount of budget, a cash transfer provided universally to all children aged 0 to 5 is estimated to lead to child monetary poverty rates that are substantially similar to the case in which a cash transfer is targeted to all children (0 to 14 years old) predicted as poor, by relatively improving the situation of younger children.