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Government expands cash handouts

The Ghanaian government, backed by the World Bank, is expanding a cash handout programme to help families hit hardest by global food price hikes. But some local development experts question whether the approach has lasting benefits.

Government officials say the initiative expands a cash transfer programme begun earlier this year, and aims to help subsistence farmers already reeling from natural disasters when food and fuel prices spiked.

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