Cash and Compliance with Social Distancing in Ghana
- Rural population
- Urban population
- Communicable diseases
- Cash transfers
- COVID-19 response
As coronavirus spreads in developing countries, an important question is how to improve the resilience of poor households to its economic ramifications, and facilitate their adherence to calls for social distancing. From this perspective, researchers aim to understand the role that digital cash transfers can play as a policy tool both to increase household resilience during the pandemic and to stem the spread of the disease by increasing adherence to social distancing in Ghana.