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“Just give all the money to the poor?”

Watch this video where Jacob Ulric is explaining his PhD project “Just give all the money to the poor?”
Jacob Ulrich

As part of CASH-IN, together with colleagues, PhD Fellow Jacob Ulrich is focussing on the potential for scaling of social cash transfers by allocating a major part of global development assistance to cash transfers.

Global aid is about 180 billion USD annually and the question is what would happen if a major part of this were to be given directly to poor people through for example old-age pensions or child support. Would that lead to better or worse results than current aid?

This is studied, amongst others through economic modelling using Uganda as a case.