Hrishipara Daily Financial Diary: The transactions our diarists didn’t make
Since May 2015 the Hrishipara Daily Financial Diary project has been recording all the daily money transactions of a sample of low-income households living in central Bangladesh. At the end of March 2021, we asked them about the transactions they hadn’t made. The...
Should we expect a post-Covid-19 social protection epiphany in Latin America?
Armando Barrientos, Emeritus Professor of Poverty and Social Justice, Global Development Institute Social protection has played a leading role in government responses to Covid-19. Public programmes providing income and in-kind transfers to vulnerable population groups...
Just Give Money to the Poor: The Development Revolution from the Global South
In 2010 Joseph Hanlon, Armando Barrientos and David Hulme published ‘Just Give Money to the Poor: The Development Revolution from the Global South’. The book concisely summarises the evidence of the benefits of cash transfers. Its conclusion that both...