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Are Cash Transfers the Best Way to Alleviate Global Poverty?

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Speakers

  • Chris Blattman
    Assistant Professor, Columbia University
  • Paul Niehaus
    Cofounder and President, GiveDirectly; Assistant Professor, University of California, San Diego

Presider

  • Isobel Coleman
    Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Director, Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy Initiative, Council on Foreign Relations

Noted development experts Paul Niehaus, assistant professor at the University of California, San Diego, and president of GiveDirectly, a nonprofit organization that makes unconditional cash grants directly to the poor, and Chris Blattman, assistant professor at Columbia University, discuss whether cash transfers are the best tool we have to combat global poverty.