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Committing to Cost-Effectiveness: USAID's New Effort to Benchmark for Greater Impact
Sarah Rose
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Amanda Glassman
September 13, 2018
Are USAID programs high impact and good value for money? Do they work? Do they generate more results for less cost than if the agency just gave poor people cash? We don’t always know the answers to those questions, but USAID is trying to find out.
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Cash Transfers Cure Poverty. Side-Effects Vary. Symptoms May Return When Treatment Stops.
Justin Sandefur
April 19, 2018
New results from a famous experiment in Kenya have sparked heated debate over whether lump-sum cash transfers have any long-term benefits for those who get them, or even do harm to neighbors who don’t.
BRIEFS
Five Approaches to Doing Better in Foreign Assistance during Times of Budget Cutting
US Development Policy Team
July 24, 2017
CGD’s US Development Policy Initiative (DPI) has assembled five proposals to do foreign assistance better, drawing on both new and long-standing work and analysis from the Center. We believe there should be a shift in mindset to embrace “doing better” in a way that can be applied i...
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Reducing Poverty in India with the Power of Digital Payments and UBI
Anit Mukherjee
April 20, 2017
Demonetization is yesterday’s news. The India of today is going full steam ahead towards a digital economy powered by financial inclusion, the mobile revolution, and Aadhaar—the biometric ID system that now covers 90 percent of its 1.3 billion population. And the social compact of the fu...
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UN Resistance Threatens Effective Aid to Syrian Refugees
Owen Barder
April 04, 2017
UN agencies are blocking reforms to aid to Syrian refugees. The donors should hold firm. Here’s why, and what they should do.
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Two Views on Fighting World Poverty
Chris Blattman
March 30, 2017
Yesterday, Lant Pritchett expressed his bewilderment at my open letter to Bill Gates advocating cash for the poor rather than chickens. I think Lant’s right and he’s wrong. We have to focus on the big picture and economic growth as a society, but I think there&rs...
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Getting Kinky with Chickens
Lant Pritchett
March 28, 2017
“Chickens versus cash” might be the “best investment” for a very narrow question, but I argue it probably isn’t in the top 100 value for money research questions in development economics.