A Conversation About Cash Transfers with GiveDirectly COO

Kate Orkin hosts Isobel Coleman for a conversation about her role as Chief Operating Officer for GiveDirectly, a nonprofit organisation that helps families living in extreme poverty by making unconditional cash transfers to them via mobile phones. Isobel discusses the organisation’s efforts to nudge policymakers toward considering bigger cash transfers, shares new experimental evidence GiveDirectly is generating on cash operations, and gives insights on how she sees the policy landscape on cash transfers evolving in the future.