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Girl Power: Conditional Cash Transfers and Female Empowerment 1 3.1 Introduction

Adolescent girls are a key demographic target group to successfully break the cycle of poverty in developing countries (Levine et al. 2008). In Malawi, the focus of this chapter, the population of 15-19 year old girls is forecast to grow by 66.9% from 2005 to 2020, making its projected growth rate the third highest in the world (Warhurst, Molyneux, and Jackson 2010). Empowering these girls to reach their full human potential not only brings immediate benefits to their own lives, but it also brings longer term benefits to their offspring and communities at large (Lloyd 2009). This is the argument of organizations