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Many aid programmes will beat cash on cost-effectiveness, and the ones that do will be those that fix a market failure or a supply problem.
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- Chris Blattman Economist and political scientist at the University of Chicago
There will be, I am confident, a great many interventions that do better than cash on any number of metrics. Ones that solve market failures or supply problems are big candidates, just like Starr and Hattendorf say.
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↗Are cash transfers overrated?chrisblattman.com
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