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Imagine if every single church in Lekki opened its doors to the homeless at night, gave them a sleeping bag, a warm meal and a voucher in the morning to learn a vocational course, offered by the unemployed youth who attend that church.
And make sure we actually empower the unemployed by giving them a voucher scholarship where they can choose to study anywhere in Europe.
So people with their voucher could get the bed net in the local pharmacy.
Speedy privatization, for example, especially the mass voucher schemes in Czechoslovakia, Russia, and many other former Soviet countries, did not work.
Legal privatizations, mainly through the voucher program, were skillful and amazingly free of corruption.
If nothing works, it will be time to sprinkle the country with what Milton Friedman called “helicopter money” – that is, put purchasing power directly into people’s pockets, by giving every household a spending voucher with an expiration date.
Aware of the success of the Czech approach, the Russian Republic introduced in 1992 a slightly modified version of the Czech voucher plan.
Voucher programs for reproductive health care in Uganda and Kenya are now providing access to quality services from the private sector.
The Czechs were first and fastest at comprehensive privatization, including a mass privatization program involving the vast majority of the population through participation in voucher auctions, a far-reaching program of restitution, and rapid liberalization for starting new private businesses.
In particular, the survey shows that individuals who participated in both waves of voucher privatization, as well as those who received property through restitution, and also those who took advantage of the new economic freedom to become entrepreneurs, have views often sharply different from the rest of the population.
Those who participated in both waves of voucher privatization (79% of respondents in the survey) firmly declare themselves to be more satisfied than those who sat out at least one wave, with 56% of participants in both waves satisfied with the course of reform, versus only 37% of those who participated in neither or only one wave.
When asked, for example, whether prices should be more tightly controlled than currently, 43% of participants in both waves of voucher privatization disagree.
Those who took part in both waves of voucher privatization are 50% more likely to favor a free market; restituents are 42% more likely to do so.
Pupils receiving a voucher, such as those used in Sweden or Chile, can obtain as much education as the voucher – not their family’s income – will allow.
At the bottom of the list, the expert panel gave very low rankings to the idea of restricting alcohol sales (as a proposed solution to health problems), educational voucher programs, and prison drug treatment and reintegration programs.
Educational voucher programs, for example, took a knock when careful analysis of a Chilean program found no positive effect on students’ performance.
The voucher system means that all students, irrespective of family income, can attend the school of their choice.
Sweden’s voucher educational system is probably the most ambitions of its kind in the world.
To that end, WFP is seeking to expand our electronic voucher program, a cash card that allows families to choose from 19 food items on the local market, including garlic, greens, onions, and chilies.
The WFP reports that it is increasing its use of cash and voucher transfers.
A process of deregulation and privatization, although with continued tax-financing (in fact, basically a voucher system), began in the field of “human services,” in particular for childcare, education, and old-age care.
Each voucher cost the Colombian government $24 a year more than its previous education spending per student, but the vouchers increased attendance rates and test scores.
Yet an analysis of Chile’s voucher program found no positive effect on students’ test scores or years in school.
For example, drivers working for ride-hailing company Lyft in the United States get a voucher giving them a discount when they visit a doctor, while TaskRabbit workers are provided with liability protection of up to $1 million.
Over half of parents choose to send their children to privately-run voucher schools, even when it involves paying a fee, despite the availability of free state schools of comparable quality.