Study Finds Cash Transfers To Poor Have Positive Ripple Effect

Study Finds Cash Transfers To Poor Have Positive Ripple Effect

BERKELEY (KPIX 5) — A new study carried out in rural Kenya shows giving cash to the poor is the best way to help someone break the cycle of poverty; a study that could have implications for action in the Bay Area.

“In our case, trusting the poor to spend money on what’s best for them worked very well,” said Ted Miguel, one of the study’s lead authors and Faculty Director for the Center for Effective Global Action at UC Berkeley.

Miguel has been visiting rural Kenya for two decades now. During his most recent trip his team gave poor Kenyans […]

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