The withholding requirement would have presented "huge accounting burdens on governments and potentially harmful cash-flow disruptions for suppliers, contractors and subcontractors," Mr. Cantor said.
Some believe cash incentives can even be harmful, because they give out the wrong message about the purpose of education.
The committee heard claims that the charity's founder, Camila Batmanghelidjh, would write to ministers warning that without more state cash the charity would fold, with a potentially harmful impact on the prime minister's "big society" agenda.
There are many in various associated positions within that industry who would be without a job if that cash flow dried up suddenly with the news that there are cheaper, less harmful, and more efficacious remedies available.
Orthodox economics holds that capital controls are usually harmful to growth, because, much like barriers to trade, they breed inefficiency: those with excess cash cannot lend it to those who could use it best.
This trial asks whether conditional cash transfers can be used to prevent people from engaging in activities that are harmful to themselves and others, such as unsafe sex.
"Our position as a mission historically is to not give cash to the homeless because of the risks it would be spent in ways that are harmful," Mayes added.
Something harmful?" She shrugged.
Burnham talks of "harmful" content – content, harmful?
Wasted dollars, harmful management.
