By Sadna Samaranayake | Program Manager, BRAC Ultra-Poor Graduation Initiative and Rod Dubitsky, Senior Advisor and Chief Knowledge Officer, BRAC USA
This article originally appeared in NextBillion on December 16, 2014.
Successfully catapulting households over the extreme poverty line is incredibly hard work, and it requires philanthropic capital and grant-based approaches. In this second part of a two-part series (post one is available here) we pose a seemingly simple question: Is it better to give a cow or cash to seed sustainable livelihoods for these individuals, the poorest of the poor?
