What Chris Blattman thinks about government

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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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1. 27 Jun 2013

   Our readingWhat keeps poor countries poor is political and economic instability, not a shortage of well-designed programmes.

   Their wordsThe real problem is the absence of firms small and large to employ people productively. The root of the problem is political instability, economic uncertainty, and a country’s high cost structure, among other things. A government’s attention is properly on these bigger issues.

   ↗Why cash transfers to the poor are not the next big thingchrisblattman.com 4th of 7 in this piece