Poverty and mental disorders: breaking the cycle in low-income and middle-income countries.

By C. Lund, Mary J. De Silva, S. Plagerson, S. Cooper, D. Chisholm, Jishnu Das, Martin Knapp, Vikram Patel. The Lancet, 2011

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Scaling-up treatment of depression and anxiety: a global return on investment analysis. (2016, neutral): “41 In many countries, poor people face signiﬁ cant barriers to accessing services, including the ﬁ nancial cost of seeking and paying towards health care.”
A Mixed-Method Review of Cash Transfers and Intimate Partner Violence in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (2018, background): “A recent review of programming concludes that, although there is good evidence that a variety of mental health programs have positive impacts on economic outcomes, overall the mental health effects of poverty-alleviation programs are inconclusive (Lund et al. 2011).”
THE SHORT-TERM IMPACT OF UNCONDITIONAL CASH TRANSFERS TO THE POOR: EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE FROM KENYA (2016, neutral): “finding may partly account for contrasting evidence regarding the effect of windfall gains on psychological well-being; while the literature has documented many positive impacts (Kling, Liebman, and Katz 2007; Ssewamala, Han, and Neilands 2009; Lund et al. 2011; Ozer et al. 2011; Rosero and Oosterbe”