USA: Cash transfers to victims of Hurricane Harvey: a useful experiment

USA: Cash transfers to victims of Hurricane Harvey: a useful experiment

GiveDirectly , a nonprofit organization currently most known for unconditional cash transfers in East Africa, has decided to distribute cash among Hurricane Harvey victims, starting with those afflicted in Rose City, Texas with a population of about 500 people considered for the project. However, depending on occupancy of the affected areas, the estimation is to cover at least 3000 people with the cash aid.

As with their other initiatives in Kenya , Uganda , and Rwanda , GiveDirectly is proposing to transfer money to hurricane victims in Texas as an unconditional payment. Unlike the projects in East Africa however, where […]

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