Omidyar Network’s Tracy Williams and Mike Kubzansky describe why Omidyar is investing in GiveDirectly’s basic income experiment. Omidyar Network’s foundational belief that empowering people frees them to better themselves, their families, and their communities has great evidence in the growing literature around the benefits of cash transfers. In these programs, low income individuals who receive […]
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Known for its cash programs – Cash in the News
This week saw basic income come up in the news in a variety of forms: Devex reported on basic income as a possible “new safety net” and basic income debates moved forward in Scotland, San Francisco, and Canada. GIVEDIRECTLY IN THE NEWS AND BLOGS 1. No time like the present to tackle the future of work […]
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Buzziest ideas in economics – Cash in the News
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 […]
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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: […]
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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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One of the best things you can do – Cash in the News
Joe Huston, GiveDirectly’s regional director in East Africa, appeared on TVO this week to explain GiveDirectly’s cash transfers and some of our new projects including a basic income experiment and our digital platform, GDLive. Elsewhere, basic income made headlines, from the launch of Finland’s pilot to a new survey showing almost half of Americans support […]
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Uncurated communication from recipients
In addition to enrolling 31,000 new families and launching the world’s first long term, universal basic income study in 2016, GiveDirectly also released GDLive – a new way to receive unfiltered, unedited communication from cash transfer recipients.This product is made possible by our end-to-end (donor to recipient’s door) operating model, in which we collect all […]
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