{"id":1194111,"date":"2023-08-29T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=6142d1a14507c498c089ccea8c5ccf73"},"modified":"2023-08-29T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T07:00:00","slug":"why-dont-we-fight-poverty-by-just-giving-people-money-with-paul-niehaus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/08\/29\/why-dont-we-fight-poverty-by-just-giving-people-money-with-paul-niehaus\/","title":{"rendered":"Why don&#8217;t we fight poverty by just giving people money? (with Paul Niehaus)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        <p>We saw during the pandemic that giving people cash is good for individuals and the economy as a whole. It makes sense: When people have more money, they spend it in their communities and stimulate the local economy. So why don\u2019t we give people money all the time? Our guest today started a charity that combats poverty by giving people cash, with no strings attached, to use how they wish. The results have been really encouraging. Paul Niehaus, co-founder of GiveDirectly, explains how his program works\u2014and more importantly, <em>why<\/em> it works.<\/p><p><br><\/p><p>Paul Niehaus is an economist at UCSD and an entrepreneur working to accelerate the end of extreme poverty. He is co-founder, former president, and current director at GiveDirectly, the leading international NGO specialized in digital cash transfers and consistently rated one of the most impactful ways to give.<\/p><p><br><\/p><p>Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PaulFNiehaus\">@PaulFNiehaus<\/a><\/p><p><br><\/p><p>GiveDirectly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.givedirectly.org\/research-at-give-directly\/\">https:\/\/www.givedirectly.org<\/a><\/p><p><br><\/p><p>Website: <a href=\"http:\/\/pitchforkeconomics.com\/\">http:\/\/pitchforkeconomics.com<\/a><\/p><p>Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PitchforkEcon\">@PitchforkEcon<\/a><\/p><p>Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pitchforkeconomics\/?hl=en\">@pitchforkeconomics<\/a><\/p><p>Nick\u2019s twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nickhanauer?lang=en\">@NickHanauer<\/a><\/p>\n      \n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"\">Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        We saw during the pandemic that giving people cash is good for individuals and the economy as a whole. It makes sense: When people have more money, they spend it in their communities and stimulate the local economy. So why don\u2019t we give people&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1577,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1577"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1194111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1194112,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194111\/revisions\/1194112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1194111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1194111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1194111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}