Featuring Authors

Todd Moss

Chief Operating Officer and Senior Fellow

Center for Global Development

Caroline Lambert

Visiting Fellow

Center for Global Development

Stephanie Majerowicz

PhD Candidate in Public Policy

Harvard Kennedy School of Government

Comments by

Moises Naim

Author of ​The End of Power​

Former Minister of Trade and Industry, Venezuela

Host

Ben Leo

Director of Rethinking US Development Policy and Senior Fellow

Center for Global Development

Oil to Cash: Fighting the Resource Curse with Cash Transfers proposes a radical new policy option for countries facing the daunting challenges of natural resource windfalls: citizen dividends. Authors Todd Moss, Caroline Lambert, and Stephanie Majerowicz make the case for every citizen to receive a share of their nation’s resource wealth through a regular, universal, and rules-based cash payment. Oil-to-Cash would benefit both citizens and governments by transferring cash directly into the hands of the people while creating incentives to restore the social contract built on taxation and accountability. They also address delivery options, common objections, and the most promising country cases.

Oil to Cash was launched on June 10th at at CGD. The reception was followed by a discussion with the authors and guest Moisés Naím, author and former Venezuelan Minister of Trade and Industry.