Hm, cine-ar fi crezut? :) „As solutions to global poverty go, just give poor people money is pretty rock solid. A recent randomized trial found that Kenyans who received no-strings attached cash from the charity GiveDirectly built more assets, bought more goods, were less hungry, and were all-around happier than those who didnt get cash. But voters and politicians generally prefer giving people specific goods — like housing, food, or health care — rather than plain old cash, for fear that the cash might get misused by unscrupulous poor people. Maybe the recipients will just blow the cash drinking! This particular concern comes up both in domestic and global poverty conversations; Fox News is obsessed with the possibility of people using federal government benefits like food stamps to buy fancy seafood or hang out at strip clubs, but mainstream global development experts often express these concerns too. As Paul Niehaus, the founder of GiveDirectly, once put it, It is pretty ironic the number of conversations I have had with development people about the poor and their drinking—over drinks. [...]So there you have it: money sent to poor people abroad doesnt get wasted on booze or cigarettes. But its worth asking whether we should even care how its spent, ultimately. Theres something more than a little unseemly about Westerners casting judgment on poor people halfway across the world for having a beer or a smoke. As the authors World Bank colleague Jishnu Das once put it, does giving cash work well is a well-defined question only if you are willing to say that well is something that WE, the donors, want to define for families whom we have never met and whose living circumstances we have probably never spent a day, let alone a lifetime, in.”
Posted on: Sun, 08 Jun 2014 20:51:27 +0000
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