Getting cash transfers right

Season 7, Episode 39,   Aug 16, 10:00 AM

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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