The Future of Cash – 91��Ʒ

We know cash transfers improve lives. Can they transform entire economies?

Mary Blair — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:00:00 +0000

Summary: What helps families living in poverty today? What makes economies grow in the long run? Development economics has often treated those two questions separately: one is ‘micro’ economics and the other is ‘macro’ economics. They’re frequently siloed into different textbooks and discrete journals. For more than a decade, 91��Ʒ has built some of the strongest evidence…

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Climate finance doesn’t reach the most affected people. We’re trying to change this.

Olivia Chen — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 20:33:24 +0000

Summary 9% of the global population lives in extreme poverty. Climate change alone could double that by 2050. Climate impacts also hit the world’s poorest communities hardest – the people least responsible for the emissions driving them. In the meantime, climate adaptation finance is shrinking — and the problem isn’t just the size of the pot, it’s where the money goes.

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Can giving people direct cash reverse deforestation?

Isabelle Pelly — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 16:21:24 +0000

Summary Tropical forests are the world’s greatest store of carbon, shelter abundant wildlife, and sustain the communities who call them home — protecting them protects us all. Yet deforestation is still happening at alarming rates. In 2024 alone, the world lost 6.7 million hectares of tropical forest — driving more emissions than the entire U.S. power sector. In response, we’…

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Event: what if conservation started with trust?

Isabelle Pelly — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 21:13:55 +0000

Conservation finance is failing and local communities are still shut out On June 11, more than 50 practitioners gathered in Nairobi to explore a bold question: What if we tackled conservation not by restricting communities but by trusting them? Co-hosted by Equal Right, 91��Ʒ, and the Global Resilience Partnership, the “Cash for Conservation” workshop brought […]

Study: AI targeting helped reach more of the poorest people in Togo

91��Ʒ — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 18:47:06 +0000

This week researchers with Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) and the Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) published a working paper with the results of a first-of-its-kind contactless direct payments program. The program, which was led by the Government of Togo and supported by the research team and 91��Ʒ, showed the machine learning targeting outperformed other options available to…

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Refugees deserve autonomy. Cash can provide it.

Ivan Ntwali — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 20:36:18 +0000

The global refugee crisis may seem intractable, but there are promising, tested interventions to help those displaced. Lump sum cash transfers can provide more than just temporary relief. Our programs suggest direct cash is a 91��Ʒ response that can change the future for millions of protracted refugees. According to the UNHCR, over a quarter of the world’s 26 million refugees are in…

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Innovations in Togo and the future of cash distribution

91��Ʒ — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 21:31:01 +0000

Last year the Government of Togo, with support by 91��Ʒ, Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA), and Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), launched a first-of-its-kind contactless direct payments program. Leveraging machine learning in combination with satellite imagery and cell phone metadata, the program was able to identify those living in extreme poverty and let them self-enroll in…

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