Ugo Gentilini

Timely Cash

Lessons from 2,500 Years of Giving People Money

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a historical overview of the 2,500-year history of cash transfers to better understand the roots of contemporary debates on whether and how such assistance should be provided.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780198888116
• ISBN-10: 0198888112
• Artikelnr.: 72598970

Autorenporträt

Ugo Gentilini is Lead Economist at the World Bank. With over two decades of professional experience in social protection research and practice, Gentilini has published extensively on various issues related to social assistance. His work includes Cash Transfers in Pandemic Times (World Bank, 2022), Exploring Universal Basic Income, with Margaret Grosh, Jamele Rigolini, and Ruslan Yemtsov (World Bank, 2020), and The 1.5 Billion People Question, with Harold Alderman and Ruslan Yemtsov (World Bank, 2017).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Boxes
Preface
Acknowledgements
Disclaimer
1: The Gist of the Journey
2: Poor Narratives: The Framing of Poverty and Its Design Implications
3: Accompanying Economic Transformation
4: Building State Capabilities
5: Social and Political Stability
6: Reform Trajectories
7: Where Do We Go from Here?
Bibliography
Index