Recent Efforts at Providing Direct Cash Transfers to Poor Individuals

Multiple Choice

Recent efforts at providing direct cash transfers to poor individuals in DVCs have shown which of the following results?

A) Cash transfers never worked, because the recipients just wasted the money on unproductive spending.
B) These transfers have shown positive early results; the majority of the recipients spent the money as intended.
C) Only conditional cash transfers worked. Unconditional cash transfers never worked.
D) These cash transfers worked only if the aid providers frequently followed up on the recipients.