Credit: CC0 Public Domain New research has shown governments can help improve health in low and middle income countries, simply by providing cash to people living in poverty.
Dr Frank Pega, an honorary research fellow from the University of Otago, Wellington, has just published a major international review of the health effects of unconditional cash transfers . These are one type of governmental social protection intervention to tackle income poverty. Universal basic incomes, where everybody receives a basic income, are also a type of unconditional cash transfer.
The review identified 21 studies on the effect of such cash transfers on health […]
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