EAG London 2019: Are cash transfers the best policy option? (Sam Carter)
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The Effects of Cash Grants on Investment in a Business
In Ghana on the other hand researchers found that cash was less effective than in kind grants and when they looked into why that might be they found that self-control might be at play sort of when people receive cash they have a harder time keeping it invested in the business. A much larger cash transfer had a wide range of benefits on the outcomes that the the implementers were trying to reach but I think we just need to be aware that different sizes of cash will have different impacts.
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