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Home Agribusiness Can giving cash, no strings attached, help end poverty? In Malawi, they’re...

Can giving cash, no strings attached, help end poverty? In Malawi, they’re finding out.

April 8, 2025

Last May, with no more fanfare than a buzz of inexpensive cellphones, Nelson Mdzuma and Magret Zoliyela found themselves staring at an amount of money they never imagined would be theirs: 935,000 Malawian kwachas, each.That’s about $550, more than what most people in the village of Chigowo, one of thousands of similar villages that dot…

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