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The CASH-IN research project

Professor Lars Buur is leading the research programme CASH-IN: privately managed cash transfer projects in Africa.
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  • Socio-Economic Research Centre (Research Centre)
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    Lars Buur tals about the CASH-IN research programme
    By: Lars Buur

    In the programme researchers from Roskilde University together with colleagues from Makerere University in Uganda and the University of Dodoma from Tanzania explores:

    • How beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries perceive public and privately managed social cash transfer projects.
    • What type of relations public and privately managed cash transfer projects produce.
    • How cost-effective different types of projects are.
    • What the effects of social cash transfers are with regard of poverty and livelihood.
    • What the potential for scaling of social cash transfers are.

    Professor Lars Buur is leading the research programme CASH-IN: privately managed cash transfer projects in Africa. The research programme has received funding from the Danish Foreign Ministry through a grant administrated by the Danida Fellowship Center (DFC).