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Just Give Money to the Poor The Development Revolution from the Global South

Paperback • 2010 • English

Just Give Money to the Poor The Development Revolution from the Global South

By Joseph Hanlon, Armando Barrientos, David Hulme

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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 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...Show more

Economic growth
Development economics and emerging economies
Economic systems and structures

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9781565493339

Publisher

Kumarian Press

Published year

2010

Language

English

Original title

Just Give Money to the Poor The Development Revolution from the Global South

Format

Paperback

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