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"Recipients, who are often living on less than 65 cents a day..." People living in Kenya on 65 cents a day is a completely different situation than, say, a hom

"Recipients, who are often living on less than 65 cents a day..." People living in Kenya on 65 cents a day is a completely different situation than, say, a homeless person in San Francisco. I applaud the emphasis on data, but I'd be really careful with painting this issue with a broad brush. If anything, the roadways are littered with the corpses of programs that tried applying simplistic ideas too broadly. You also want to make sure you are measuring something that actually means something and not just something that's easy to measure.

cjbprime 14y ago
> People living in Kenya on 65 cents a day is a completely different situation than, say, a homeless person in San Francisco. That's true, this is why we usually mention the Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) converted number -- for example, a billion people live on less than the PPP-converted equivalent of USD $2/day. That means they can afford to buy what we can afford to buy in the US for less than $2/day, which is to say almost nothing. It's easy to look up the PPP ratio for Kenya, which is 0.5 -- i.e. $0.65/day in Kenya buys roughly the same as $1.30/day would in the US. http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/PA.NUS.PPPC.RF http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/PA.NUS.PPPC.RF
- schraeds 14y ago
  Data trumps speculation.