#61 – Rory Stewart on GiveDirectly and Massively Scaling Cash Transfers

Rory Stewart is the President of GiveDirectly and a visiting fellow at Yale’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. Before that, Rory was (amongst other things) a Member of Parliament in the UK, a Professor in Human Rights at Harvard, and a diplomat. He is also the author of several books and co-hosts the podcast The Rest Is Politics. In this episode, we talk about: The moral case for radically scaling cash-transfers What we can do to raise governments’ ambitions to end global poverty What Rory learned about aid since being Secretary of State for International Development Further reading is available on our website: hearthisidea.com/episodes/stewart If you have any feedback, you can get a free book for filling out our new feedback form. You can also get in touch through our website or on Twitter. Consider leaving us a review wherever you're listening to this — it's the best free way to support the show. Thanks for listening!