Episode Details
Back to Episodes
Getting cash transfers right
Season 7
Episode 39
Published 1 year, 8 months ago
Description
Sending regular small sums of money to households or individuals are go-to policy. Should these transfers be universal or targeted? And how big, and how regular, should the sums be? In another episode based on the most interesting presentations from the CEPR-PSE Symposium 2024, Paul Niehaus explains to Tim Phillips how cash transfers work best to relieve poverty.
Picture credit: WFP/Simon Pierre Diouf
Picture credit: WFP/Simon Pierre Diouf