At present, 20 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have CCT schemes in place, covering more than 120 million people, or 20% of the region's population, at a cost of about 0.4% of regional GDP (Cecchini, 2013). The recent work of Lustig and others (2013) and the studies conducted by OECD support such a comparison, notwithstanding methodological differences. Two definitions are used: the first includes all income from employment (formal and informal), income from capital, auto-consumption (where it is reported), imputed rent for owner-occupied housing and private transfers and contributory pensions.