Targeting direct cash transfers to the extremely poor

Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1563-1572

  Abelson, Brian ^a   Varshney, Kush R ^b   Sun, Joy ^c  

^a Enigma   (United States)

^b IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

^c GiveDirectly   (United States)

Author keywords

poverty economics; remote sensing; social good

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907027140     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2623330.2623335     Document Type: Conference Paper

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