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Money for Nothing?

When it comes to aid, what works best - giving people food, shelter, medicine, or handing over cash to spend themselves? Researchers went to a Kenyan village to try to find out.

When it comes to aid, what works best – giving people food, shelter, medicine, or just handing over cash and letting them spend it how they like? One group of researchers went to a Kenyan village to try to answer this question and to do so they also employed a new tool - randomised controlled testing. RCTs have long been the gold standard for measuring whether medical drugs work, but could they revolutionise how we measure the impact of aid?

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Mon 23 Jun 2014 15:50GMT

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