Just give money to the poor : the development revolution from the global south /
Hanlon, Joseph,
Just give money to the poor : the development revolution from the global south / Joseph Hanlon, Armando Barrientos and David Hulme. - 1 online resource (xii, 216 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- From alms to rights and north to south -- Cash transfers today -- Eating more--and better -- Pro-poor growth: turning a $1 grant into $2 income -- To everyone or just a few? The targeting dilemma -- Identifying recipients -- Co-responsibility and services: the conditionality dilemma -- Cash transfers are practical in poor countries -- The way forward.
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* Argues strongly for overlooked approach to development by showing how the poor use money in ways that confound stereotypical notions of aid and handouts* Team authored by foremost scholars in the development fieldAmid all the complicated economic theories about the causes and solutions to poverty, one idea is so basic it seems radical: just give money to the poor. Despite its skeptics, researchers have found again and again that cash transfers given to significant portions of the population transform the lives of recipients. Countries from Mexico to South Africa to Indonesia are giving money.
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Transfer payments--Developing countries.
Economic assistance--Developing countries.
Poverty--Developing countries.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Economics--Macroeconomics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Economic Conditions.
Economic assistance.
Poverty.
Transfer payments.
Aide au développement.
Transferts monétaires.
Pauvreté.
Pays moins développés.
Developing countries.
Electronic books.
HC59.72.P63 / H36 2010eb
339.5/22
Just give money to the poor : the development revolution from the global south / Joseph Hanlon, Armando Barrientos and David Hulme. - 1 online resource (xii, 216 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- From alms to rights and north to south -- Cash transfers today -- Eating more--and better -- Pro-poor growth: turning a $1 grant into $2 income -- To everyone or just a few? The targeting dilemma -- Identifying recipients -- Co-responsibility and services: the conditionality dilemma -- Cash transfers are practical in poor countries -- The way forward.
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* Argues strongly for overlooked approach to development by showing how the poor use money in ways that confound stereotypical notions of aid and handouts* Team authored by foremost scholars in the development fieldAmid all the complicated economic theories about the causes and solutions to poverty, one idea is so basic it seems radical: just give money to the poor. Despite its skeptics, researchers have found again and again that cash transfers given to significant portions of the population transform the lives of recipients. Countries from Mexico to South Africa to Indonesia are giving money.
Electronic reproduction.
[Place of publication not identified] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2011.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
Text in English.
9781565493643 (electronic bk.) 1565493648 (electronic bk.) (pbk. ; alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper) (cloth ; alk. paper) (cloth ; alk. paper)
Title subscribed to via ProQuest Academic Complete
Transfer payments--Developing countries.
Economic assistance--Developing countries.
Poverty--Developing countries.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Economics--Macroeconomics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Economic Conditions.
Economic assistance.
Poverty.
Transfer payments.
Aide au développement.
Transferts monétaires.
Pauvreté.
Pays moins développés.
Developing countries.
Electronic books.
HC59.72.P63 / H36 2010eb
339.5/22