Cash Relief

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Electronic commerce is emerging as one of the main application domains on the Internet and the WWW and promises to change radically the relationship between customers, retailers and service providers. However, for this to happen, electronic commerce must become eeectively a better way of selling goods and services than the traditional channels. This requires a suitable infrastructure for develo...

Electronic Cash

Credit-card issuers in the United States have begun to explore the idea of introducing electronic-cash products. Seven financial giants, including Wells Fargo, Chase Manhattan, and MasterCard, have agreed to market the Mondex electronic cash product in the United States.1 VISA is developing a separate product. These products consist of a plastic payment card and other accessories, and consumers...

Digital Cash

Money is important for us since we can use it to purchase the desired goods and services in a convenient and anonymous way. However, carrying paper cash may be a little annoying sometimes, since the paper cash could be stolen by thieves and become a media for bacteria. So, using the existing cryptographic tools and security measures, can we replace paper cash with digital cash? In this lecture,...

Real Electronic Cash Versus Academic Electronic Cash Versus Paper Cash (Panel Report)

Cash or Condition? Evidence from a Cash Transfer Experiment

This paper assesses the role of conditionality in cash transfer programs using a unique experiment targeted at adolescent girls in Malawi. The program featured two distinct interventions: unconditional transfers (UCT arm) and transfers conditional on school attendance (CCT arm). While there was a modest decline in the dropout rate in the UCT arm in comparison to the control group, it was only 4...