grant in kind

A form of grant-in-kind — A grant of goods or services provided free of charge or the transfer of ownership of a nonfinancial asset in which the donor does not receive anything of commensurate value in return.

Meanings

noungrant in kind (plural grants in kind)

plural grants in kind

  1. alternativeAlternative form of grant-in-kind.

    Here again, this grant in kind partly filled the gap between workers in the Tonkin mines, and wages of Hanoi-Haiphong urban workers.

    2000, Jean-Pascal Bassino, Jean-Dominique Giacometti, Kōnosuke Odaka, Quantitative economic history of Vietnam, 1900-1990, page 187
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    If receiving the capital grant in kind helps the entrepreneur resist these pressures more successfully, we expect to observe a flypaper effect for in-kind grants, resulting in a higher growth in profits and capital stock, whereas the cash treatment has less effect.

    2014 January, M Fafchamps, D McKenzie, S Quinn, C Woodruff, “Microenterprise growth and the flypaper effect: Evidence from a randomized experiment in Ghana”, in Journal of Development Economics, volume 106

    A capital grant in kind necessarily concerns the change of ownership of a product previously recorded as a nonfinancial asset in the accounts of the donor government.

    2015, Sage De Clerck, Tobias Wickens, Government Finance Statistics Manual, →ISBN, page 104
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