‘The Cash Dividend’, a 2012 World Bank report, stated that “experiences—many relatively successful—reveal that the question is not whether cash transfers can be used in the region [sub-Saharan Africa], but how they should be used, and how they can be adapted and developed to meet social protection and development goals”. Other donors agree. In 2013-14, the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) supported projects that reached 6.7 million people with cash transfers.

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