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Human Rights Watch: World Bank / Jordan - Poverty Targeting Algorithms Harm Rights
June 13, 2023
AMMAN, Jordan, June 13 (TNSrpt) -- Human Rights Watch issued the following news release on June 12, 2023:

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* An automated cash transfer program in Jordan developed with significant financing from the World Bank is undermined by errors, discriminatory policies, and stereotypes about poverty.

* Many people in Jordan are not getting financial support because their hardships fall outside an algorithm's faulty model of poverty.

* The World . . .

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