Miriam Laker-Oketta – GiveDirectly https://www.givedirectly.org Send money directly to people in need. Wed, 29 Nov 2023 20:08:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://www.givedirectly.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/cropped-GiveDirectly-Square-Logo-Green-Black-32x32.png Miriam Laker-Oketta – GiveDirectly https://www.givedirectly.org 32 32 We asked people in poverty how they prefer to receive money https://www.givedirectly.org/recipient-preference/ Mon, 25 Jul 2022 01:51:59 +0000 https://www.givedirectly.org/?p=7028 February 2023 update A newly published academic paper examining the preferences of low-income households in Kenya over the structure of GiveDirectly unconditional cash transfers found: In the past two years, 182 countries launched cash aid programs, recognizing the autonomy they provide people in poverty to make decisions for themselves. In many cases, however…

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]]> Study: refugees build independence with cash aid https://www.givedirectly.org/refugees-study/ Fri, 17 Jun 2022 21:08:58 +0000 https://www.givedirectly.org/?p=6724 Worldwide, over 26M people have fled their country of birth and today live as refugees, often in conditions of insecurity and deprivation. Despite hundreds of studies showing the positive impact of direct cash aid on people in poverty, only a few focused on refugees (1, 2) and no large experimental study had been conducted on the impact of large cash transfers for refugees in a protracted setting.

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