Can We Trust the Poor With Cash?
What do the poor do with cash handouts? There is mounting evidence from interesting new review papers that, at least in developing countries, cash grants do not increase purchases of…
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Why Shouldn’t We GiveDirectly?
(PRISM Magazine, April 2014–click to read full article at PrismMagazine.org.) One of the most exciting new ways for people to give to the poor in developing countries is through transferring cash…
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Should I Give a Cow or Cash for Christmas?
(Christianity Today, December 2013–click for full article at ChristianityToday.com.) What kind of Christmas present should you get for your rich uncle who has everything? Or perhaps even more importantly, what if…
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Cash With No Strings Attached?
This Story Appears in Christianity Today, December 2017 (Print Edition) One year, instead of buying my dad the usual unattractive necktie for Christmas, we bought him a goat. He loved…
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