How debit cards helped Indonesia's poor get more food | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Rastra, Indonesia’s national food aid program, is more effective when the poor use debit cards at grocery stories rather than receiving bags of food sent to their homes, according to an MIT J-PAL study.

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