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To Beat Back Poverty, Pay the Poor

Tina Rosenberg

January 03, 2011 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro

Two columns on the most important new development program today, in use in at least 40 poor countries: give the poor cash payments, contingent on their use of health clinics and their children’s school attendance. These programs, which started in Mexico and Brazil, help the poor now and try to create a generation with less poverty in the future.

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