cash transfers

This is a joint post with Stephanie Majerowicz The World Bank’s Shanta Devarajan and Marcelo Giugale in yesterday’s Guardian Poverty Matters blog write: Except for Botswana, the track record of Africa's mineral and hydrocarbon exporters is sobering. While Africa's central banks are tod...

This is a joint post with Caroline Decker Last week CGD published our working paper on the use of fingerprint and iris scans for cash transfers. As we continue to look into this topic, we are even more convinced of the potential this technology has for transfer systems, particularly those...