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Cash Transfer Grants in South Africa during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Work Behind the ESRC Outstanding Public Policy Impact Award 2023

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The CSAE's Kate Orkin has won the ESRC award for Outstanding Public Policy Impact 2023. Stefan Dercon talks to Kate about the work behind the cash grant programme in South Africa during the Covid-19 pandemic that reached an extra 26.2 million people.
Stefan Dercon is the CSAE Director and Professor of Economic Policy, University of Oxford, and Kate Orkin is the Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy, University of Oxford.

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CSAE Research Podcasts
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Stefan Dercon
Kate Orkin
Keywords
unemployment
cash grants
randomised control trials
welfare
meta-analysis
development
economics
south africa
Department: Department of Economics
Date Added: 28/11/2023
Duration: 00:24:16

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