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Chris Blattman

What Chris Blattman thinks about benchmarks

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Economist and political scientist at the University of Chicago, who runs randomised trials on poverty, employment and violence in Uganda, Liberia and Colombia, and is one of the researchers whose work made cash transfers a mainstream aid instrument.

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3 dated positions, 2014, in their own words. Our reading of what Chris Blattman has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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  1. Our readingJudging aid programmes against each other on cost-effectiveness is the right standard, even when it counts against the programme you champion.

    Their wordsIf it’s becoming standard to judge interventions by their cost effectiveness, then I can’t be more thrilled.

    ↗Are cash transfers overrated?chrisblattman.com 1st of 5 in this piece

  3. Our readingCash transfers are the index fund of development: the benchmark every actively managed aid programme should have to beat.

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    Their wordsYou can think of cash transfers like the index fund of development (making GiveDirectly the Vanguard).

    ↗Are cash transfers overrated?chrisblattman.com 2nd of 5 in this piece

  5. Our readingMany 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.

    Their wordsThere 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.

    ↗Are cash transfers overrated?chrisblattman.com 3rd of 5 in this piece