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Cash Transfers Transform Lives of Malawi’s Poor
Pilirani Semu-Banda
"Just give money to the poor", out this month, lists all the known cash transfer programmes, and provides a lot of background and detail. See attached leaflet. Hope this helps.Joseph Hanlon
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Joseph Hanlon, Armando Barrientos, David Hulme
Price: £20.95, $24.95
Pre-publication price from Amazon.co.uk £18.71 and www.amazon.com $24.95
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Publisher: Kumarian Press April 2010 , 288 pp., 6" x 9"
Paperback: 978 1 56549 333 9
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 field
Amid all the complicated economic theories about the causes and solutions to poverty, one idea is so basic it seems radical: just give money to the poor. Despite its sceptics, researchers have found again and again that cash transfers given to significant portions of the population transform the lives of recipients. 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. Stressing that cash transfers are not charity or a safety net, the authors draw an outline of effective practices that work precisely because they are regular, guaranteed and fair. This book, the first to report on this quiet revolution in an accessible way, is essential reading for policymakers, students of international development and anyone yearning for an alternative to traditional poverty-alleviation methods.Table of Contents:
1) Introduction; 2) From alms to rights; 3) Does it make a difference?; 4) Economic impacts – poor people are different; 5) To everyone or just a few?; 6) Do poor people need conditions and compulsion?; 7) Finding money and paying it; 8) Not quite so simple; 9) The way forward
For more information, contact:
Joseph Hanlon
7 Ormonde Mansions, 100a Southampton Row
London WC1B 4BJ
j.hanlon@open.ac.uk 020 78 31 57 98
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