Children on the move: the tale of a surprising spillover in humanitarian cash transfers to refugees
Children on the move: the tale of a surprising spillover in humanitarian cash transfers to refugees Imagine the following scenario: you have a population consisting of two groups, who are, on average, equally poor at baseline. You randomly pick one group to receive sizeable cash transfers: what would happen to inequality within this population? It should increase, mainly because you increased between-group inequality, which was negligible at the start (assume away, if you wish, within-group inequality for now). At the same time, poverty should decline in the recipient group relative to the ot...
Source: worldbank.org
