How do beneficiaries in India actually use cash transfers? | Myths busted!

Episode 7, Season 4

Host: Rathish Balakrishnan, Co-founder & Managing Partner, Sattva Consulting

Guest: Pankhuri Shah & Muzamil Baig, Co-founders, Project DEEP

Do you believe we could lift India out of poverty with the help of cash transfers?Because the evidence says yes: direct and unconditional cash transfers improve recipients’ incomes, asset ownership, and mental well-being. Instead of “being wasted on alcohol” and “making people lazy,” the cash is directed into building houses, buying livestock, paying off debt, and making investments. 

In this episode, Co-founders of Project DEEP (Devising an End to Extreme Poverty), Pankhuri Shah and Muzamil Baig join Rathish Balakrishnan for an opinion-shifting conversation as they uncover:

- Myths we have about the poor (and the rich)

- How communities actually use cash transfers to grow income and build assets

- The role of the government in enabling these schemes

- Types of transfers, their benefits and limitations, and what is needed to make them most effective

- The what and why of Universal Basic Income

This is an episode you don’t want to miss out on. Tune in here!