other interventions or mix of policies might be more costeffective 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 to years old together with a schoolfeeding programme in poorer regions might represent an effective way to intervene quickly to improve child wellbeing as discussed here given the same amount of budget a cash transfer provided universally to all children aged to 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 to years old predicted as poor by relatively improving the situation of younger children