Across the world, from a meeting of world leaders in Switzerland to a San Antonio newspaper to the podiums of the French presidential race, basic income continued to be in the news. Policy-makers, economists, and columnists all talked about whether this unique type of cash transfer could be a way to reform social safety nets […]
Blog - Yearly Archives: 2017
Candid thoughts from staff, donors, and recipients on our work and the broader movement towards cash transfers.
Operations
Research Director Field Studies – Day 3: Cash transfer experts
In the final part of this three-part series, GiveDirectly’s Research Director Michael Cooke discusses key takeaways from his trip to visit field teams and recipients in Kenya.At GiveDirectly we talk a lot about the poor being the true poverty experts. Today I had the great privilege of being able to ask questions of poverty experts […]
Operations
Research Director Field Studies – Day 2: Gimoro amora
In the second part of this three-part series, GiveDirectly’s Research Director Michael Cooke discusses key takeaways from his trip to visit field teams and recipients in Kenya. Today I went out with GiveDirectly field staff to shadow the process of enrolling new program recipients. Luo was the primary spoken language of the recipients in the […]
Operations
Research Director Field Studies – Day 1: In the details
In the first part of this three-part series, GiveDirectly’s Research Director Michael Cooke discusses key takeaways from his trip to visit field teams and recipients in Kenya. Truth and customer service: two of many things that have been said to be in the details. What I saw today was GiveDirectly’s call center team in Kisumu, […]
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Contrary to our most cherished charitable instincts – Cash in the News
This week, FastCoExist talked to GiveDirectly’s own Matt Johnson and profiled our new product, GDLive. In the piece, Ben Schiller dug into both the specifics of GDLive, such as its new search feature, as well as its big-picture goal, to give donors information about “who exactly is being helped.” Elsewhere, in the Houston Chronicle, Michael […]
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Some basic (income) questions, answered
“Cash transfers… universal basic income, what’s the difference?” That’s the question a lot of people have been asking us recently. The short answer: a universal basic income (UBI) is a type of cash transfer. As the name suggests, there are three discrete conditions that need to be met to consider a cash transfer a UBI: […]
Opinions
What would you do with an extra $1,000?
Mika Marcondes de Freitas explains what biking across Europe has to do with GiveDirectly, and why he’s committed to donating 10% of his earnings directly to extremely poor families.What would you do with an extra $1,000? I would personally take a couple of months off and ride my bicycle solo from Copenhagen to Istanbul. […]
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A pretty natural fit – Cash in the News
This week, GiveDirectly was mentioned in a range of outlets across the world, including Inside Philanthropy, the Spanish-language El Mundo, and New York Magazine. In FastCoExist, GiveDirectly’s regional director Joe Huston talked with Ben Schiller about our basic income experiment specifically, the design details of the study, and how running this experiment is a natural […]
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Nine million of the world’s poorest – Cash in the News
This week, in response to a poorly-argued front-page Daily Mail article against the UK’s cash transfers, we saw a pretty extraordinarily response to cash from a range of organizations and officials, including the Prime Minister Theresa May, herself. Also, this week, Benjamin Soskis wrote a long piece on cash and benchmarking in The Atlantic, and […]
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