SYLVIE DOUGLIS, BYLINE: This is PLANET MONEY from NPR.

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DAVE BLANCHARD, HOST:There’s this fundamental question in economics that has proven really hard to answer – how to spend money to help people out of poverty. The old-school way of doing it was to fund programs that would support very particular things – buying cows for a village or giving people business training or building schools.But over the past few decades, there has been a new idea. What if the cure for people not having money was just giving them money, no strings attached? The argument for this […]

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