Abhijit Banerjee received the Nobel Prize in Economics for his research on poverty. He says that among groups with lower incomes there are issues that cannot be resolved only with the mere transfer of money by the State.
In the Kenya experiment, they observed the behavior of more than 22,000 people in 195 villages who received a salary. “Recipients ate more protein and demonstrated lower rates of depression,” The Economist reported. Instead of becoming lazy or starting to consume in a crazy way, they behaved in a way similar to that expected in middle class people.