The case for giving poor people cash is not that it is a cure, but that it is less bad than most of what aid already does.

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• Some aid programmes will beat cash at solving a specific problem, but few will beat it at simply making poor people less poor. CBChris Blattman14 Mar 2014similar wording
• Aid is not development: transfers can relieve poverty, but the work that actually lifts a country out of it is not work donors do. CBChris Blattman27 Jun 2013similar wording
• 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. CBChris Blattman14 Mar 2014similar wording
• Cash helps a poor person whose only obstacle is a lack of capital, and does little for anyone whose obstacle is something else. CBChris Blattman27 Jun 2013similar wording
• When a shock falls hardest on the poor, hand out cash rather than hold the price down. JCJohn H. Cochrane20 Aug 2024similar wording

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