Just give money to the poor : the development revolution from the global south /

* Argues strongly for overlooked approach to development by showing how the poor use money in ways that confound stereotypical notions of aid and handouts* Team authored by foremost scholars in the development fieldAmid all the complicated economic theories about the causes and solutions to poverty,...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Hanlon, Joseph (Author), Barrientos, Armando (Author), Hulme, David (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Sterling, VA : Kumarian Press, 2010.
Subjects:
Transfer payments > Developing countries.
Economic assistance > Developing countries.
Poverty > Developing countries.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > Macroeconomics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Economic Conditions.
Aide au développement.
Transferts monétaires.
Pauvreté.
Pays moins développés.
Economic assistance
Poverty
Transfer payments
Developing countries
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • From alms to rights and north to south
  • Cash transfers today
  • Eating more--and better
  • Pro-poor growth: turning a $1 grant into $2 income
  • To everyone or just a few? The targeting dilemma
  • Identifying recipients
  • Co-responsibility and services: the conditionality dilemma
  • Cash transfers are practical in poor countries
  • The way forward.

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