Just Give Money to the Poor: The Development Revolution from the Global South
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| Rating | : | 4.18 (935 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1565493338 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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He is a senior researcher at the Chronic Poverty Research Centre, which gives him access to the most up-to-date and unpublished literature on cash transfers. David Hulme is Professor of Development Studies and Founder-Director of the Chronic Poverty Research Centre and the Brooks World Poverty Institute, School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester.Joseph Hanlon is Senior Lecturer in Development and Conflict Resolution
As directors at Brooks World Poverty Institute at the University of Manchester, experts Barrientos and Hulme, along with journalist-researcher Hanlon (Do Bicycles Equal Development in Mozambique?), dissect the growing trend in a number of countries, including China, Mexico, India, Brazil, Indonesia, and South Africa. From Publishers Weekly In recent years, the Global South (nee "the third world") has embraced a system of cash transfers directly to the poor, as opposed to top-down government aid, to foster human development. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. . All rights reserved. Though cash transfers do not automatically reduce inequalities-typically, they amount to no more than 1 perc
Midwest Book Review said A scholarly and thoughtful read that shouldn't be missed. The simplest of ideas can still hold much value. The collaborative work of Joseph Hanlon, Armando Barrientos, and David Hulme, "Just Give Money to the Poor: The Development Revolution from the Global South" discusses this revolutionary concept and how some developing countries are simply granting the poor money and watching how they use that money wisely, for education and for businesses to sustain th. Wayne Bleier said Excellent and readable book that dispells many ideas about the effects of giving cash grants to the poor.. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in aid programs as well as micro credit. It dispells the idea that giving cash grants creates dependency and that poor people will misuse the money.. "Just giving money to the poor works better than anything else in the international development field" according to Jeffrey Ashe. Well written and well researched, Just Give Money to the Poor shows how small monthly transfer payments can take the edge off of extreme poverty. Transfer payments represent an extraordinarily cost effective and scalable approach to mitigating poverty with documented impact on nutrition, school attendance and business development. This is a must read for anyone concerned about the vast amount of devel
Countries from Mexico to South Africa to Indonesia are giving money directly to the poor and discovering that they use it wisely – to send their children to school, to start a business and to feed their families.Directly challenging an aid industry that thrives on complexity and mystification, with highly paid consultants designing ever more complicated projects, Just Give Money to the Poor offers the elegant southern alternative – bypass governments and NGOs and let the poor decide how to use their money. Despite its skeptics, researchers have found again and again that cash transfers given to significant portions of the population transform the lives of recipients. * 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