If you give the poor cash, does it help? (English)

In Uganda, researchers evaluated a government program that gave unsupervised cash grants to youth for small business development and training. Based on final results four years after the intervention, the cash transfers achieved nearly all the goals. Beneficiaries invested most of the cash in building business opportunities. While they still did agricultural work, they spent more time working in skilled industry and services and their incomes rose...

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Blattman,Christopher;

Fiala,Nathan V.;

Martinez,Sebastian;
Document Date
2013/06/01
Document Type
Brief
Report Number
79446
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Uganda,
Region
Eastern and Southern Africa,
Disclosure Date
2013/07/11
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
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If you give the poor cash, does it help?
Keywords
young adult

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Blattman,Christopher; Fiala,Nathan V.; Martinez,Sebastian.

If you give the poor cash, does it help? (English). From evidence to policy Washington, DC : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/108731468108860335

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