What It Takes To Lift Families Out Of Poverty : Goats and Soda : NPR

What It Takes To Lift Families Out Of Poverty : Goats and Soda : NPR: ""Does global aid work?" Karlan says.



 He was reading a bunch of studies on the topic. But none of them actually answered the question. "We were tearing our hair out reading these papers because it was frustrating," he says. "[We] never really felt like the papers were really satisfactory."



One problem was that no one was actually testing global aid programs — methodically — to see if they really changed people's lives permanently. "They haven't been taking the scientific method to problems of poverty," he says.

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