EAG London 2019: Are cash transfers the best policy option? (Sam Carter)
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The Role of Cash in Policy Making
There are of course reasons that we might not prefer cash transfers to the alternatives. In kind or sort of cash plus interventions might be preferable if policymakers want to change a particular behavior or increase consumption of a particular good. And finally, cash is quite efficient in most places. It's easy to administer especially when solutions like mobile money and other sort of direct deposit options are around.
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