Just Give Money to the Poor: The Development Revolution from the Global SouthKumarian Press, 2012 - 288 páginas * 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 field Amid 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 directly to the poor and discovering that they use it wisely “ to send their children to school, to start a business and to feed their families. Directly challenging an aid industry that thrives on complexity and mystification, with highly paid consultants designing ever more complicated projects, Just Give Money to the Pooroffers the elegant southern alternative “ bypass governments and NGOs and let the poor decide how to use their money. Stressing that cash transfers are not charity or a safety net, the authors draw an outline of effective practices that work precisely because they are regular, guaranteed and fair. This book, the first to report on this quiet revolution in an accessible way, is essential reading for policymakers, students of international development and anyone yearning for an alternative to traditional poverty-alleviation methods. |
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... cash transfers, or CCTs, which reward the poor with cash payments if and only if they do the kinds of things that ... Give Money to the Poor: The Development Revolution from the Global South—may be the most simple, and radical, of all ...
... cash transfers, or CCTs, which reward the poor with cash payments if and only if they do the kinds of things that ... Give Money to the Poor: The Development Revolution from the Global South—may be the most simple, and radical, of all ...
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... giving money to the poor—no strings, no conditions, no kidding—may be the most promising approach not just for avoiding hardship and reducing poverty, but for long-term development as well. The authors present data from direct cash ...
... giving money to the poor—no strings, no conditions, no kidding—may be the most promising approach not just for avoiding hardship and reducing poverty, but for long-term development as well. The authors present data from direct cash ...
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... Give Money to the Poor makes it clear that there is a real debate about this issue. Do poor people simply lack the money to improve their own lives and thus, over time, the economic status of their community and country? And if ...
... Give Money to the Poor makes it clear that there is a real debate about this issue. Do poor people simply lack the money to improve their own lives and thus, over time, the economic status of their community and country? And if ...
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... give cash to people on a long-term basis. And they point to a little-understood reality of the developing world: The biggest problem for those below the poverty line is a basic lack of cash. Many people have so little money that they ...
... give cash to people on a long-term basis. And they point to a little-understood reality of the developing world: The biggest problem for those below the poverty line is a basic lack of cash. Many people have so little money that they ...
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... give money to their own poorest, because so many of their citizens have low incomes, so these countries would have to wait until economic growth made them more “modern” before they could extend this right to their poorest citizens ...
... give money to their own poorest, because so many of their citizens have low incomes, so these countries would have to wait until economic growth made them more “modern” before they could extend this right to their poorest citizens ...
Índice
| 15 | |
Eating Moreand Better | 53 |
Turning a 1 Grant into 2 Income | 69 |
To Everyone or Just a Few? The Targeting Dilemma | 87 |
Identifying Recipients | 101 |
The Conditionality Dilemma | 125 |
Cash Transfers Are Practical in Poor Countries | 143 |
The Way Forward | 165 |
Background and Research Data | 183 |
Index | 205 |
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Just Give Money to the Poor: The Development Revolution from the Global South Joseph Hanlon,Armando Barrientos,David Hulme No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2010 |
Just Give Money to the Poor: The Development Revolution from the Global South Joseph Hanlon,Armando Barrientos,David Hulme No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2010 |
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