Final weekend I did one thing most fathers dread. What all this hype ignores, though, is that GiveDirectly’s audacious thought has been around for many years. Post-catastrophe charities have been experimenting with cash transfers because the Nineteen Nineties. In 2010, when floods deluged one-third of Pakistan, aid employees handed out 1.7 million debit cards pre-loaded with $230. As early because the Eighties, Latin American international locations had been handing out “conditional” cash grants, paying parents to send their children to high school or feed them balanced meals. Even the World Bank, not exactly a laboratory of revolutionary thinking, has poured greater than $25 billion into “social security nets”—unemployment and pension benefits, basically—in creating countries. “Welfare” sounds loads much less break shit†than transferring cash to folks via their cell telephones, however it is, sorry everybody, the same thing.
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