Fin24 Cites IPA Research in Ethiopia on Impacts of Providing Cash and Jobs

Fin24 Cites IPA Research in Ethiopia on Impacts of Providing Cash and Jobs

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Fin24 highlights the complications of providing payments, jobs, and training as a means to help people escape poverty, citing an IPA study in Ethiopia. The study provided young, mostly female, low-skilled job-seekers with either cash-grants or factory jobs. While the intervention had short term effects after one year, they faded after five years.

May 29, 2019