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Is cash the best way to help the poor? (Michael Faye)

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How Do You Determine Who Gets the Money?

Give directly gives people just cash, instead of trying to give them goods or services that are supposed to help them become less poor. How much cash are you giving people? Does it varyso it depends. In general, we're giving about the equivalent of one year's consumption. The idea and the opportunity to take ano human out of poverty for a dollar 50 a day is a pretty remarkable one. And how do you decide who gets the money? We try to find the extreme poor. So those living below that dollar 90 of extreme poverty. These are folks that can't provide shelter, food, clothing for their families. That was wave one. Wave two: Targeting based on location

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