Just give money to the poor : the development revolution from the global south / Joseph Hanlon, Armando Barrientos and David Hulme.

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Hanlon, Joseph [author.]

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TextPublisher: Sterling, VA : Kumarian Press, 2010Description: 1 online resource (xii, 216 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9781565493643
1565493648

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Just give money to the poor.DDC classification:

339.5/22 22

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HC59.72.P63 H36 2010eb

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Contents:

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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Summary: * 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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Text in English.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

* 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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