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WS MoreOrLess: Money for nothing?
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Length:
10 minutes
Released:
Jun 21, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
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?
Released:
Jun 21, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode
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