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neptath  ·  3958 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Want to help the poor and transform your economy? Give people cash.

Fascinating! But I wonder how these results would apply in an industrialized or first-world nation instead of a third-world one like Uganda.





user-inactivated  ·  3958 days ago  ·  link  ·  

canada conducted an experiment to discover the answer to this exact question, but then a conservative government came to power, killed the funding, and prevented analysis of the data collected.

http://www.dominionpaper.ca/articles/4100

cgod  ·  3958 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's being tried in a limited number of Indian communities right now. This topic seems to come up every few months on Hubski.