TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hanlon,Joseph
AU  - Barrientos,Armando
AU  - Hulme,David
TI  - Just give money to the poor: the development revolution from the global south 
SN  - 9781565493643
AV  - HC59.72.P63 H36 2010eb
U1  - 339.5/22 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Sterling, VA
PB  - Kumarian Press
KW  - Transfer payments
KW  - Developing countries
KW  - Economic assistance
KW  - Poverty
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
KW  - Economics
KW  - Macroeconomics
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Economic Conditions
KW  - fast
KW  - Aide au développement
KW  - eclas
KW  - Transferts monétaires
KW  - Pauvreté
KW  - Pays moins développés
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2011
N2  - * 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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