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The Educational Impacts of Cash Transfers in Tanzania
David Evans et al.
December 17, 2020
Cash transfers boost educational outcomes for poor children on average, but which aspects of educational performance are most responsive and which poor children benefit the most? This study examines the educational impacts of cash transfers, drawing on a randomized, community implemented conditional...
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The Case for Cash—Beyond COVID—Gains Strength: New Data on Comparative Cost-Effectiveness
Sarah Rose
September 15, 2020
Whether a COVID-induced expansion of cash transfers can set the stage for increased use of cash as a broader development tool remains to be seen.
WORKING PAPER

Deliberative Democracy and the Resource Curse: A Nationwide Experiment in Tanzania
Justin Sandefur et al.
September 11, 2020
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And the World Leader in Mobile Money Adoption is… (Not Where You Think)
Kyle Navis
May 14, 2019
The story of the m-Pesa’s penetration in the Kenya economy is a well-trodden yet exciting path into what feels like a taste of a cashless future. All that said, Kenya is not the country with the most adults holding mobile money accounts. It’s Bangladesh.