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Send money to people living in poverty, no strings attached. In Bangladesh, DRC, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Morocco, Nigeria, Rwanda, Uganda, & U.S.

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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
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Why I love GiveDirectly
My favorite charity gives cash to poor people. They decide how to spend it.
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GiveDirectly @give-directly.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
For one night only, let's set aside the cost-effectiveness and pick up the hors d'oeuvres: luma.com/xrvgeqyj
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GiveDirectly @give-directly.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
"What about sending money to people directly? A growing body of research shows that even in fragile conflict zones, people often strongly prefer receiving cash — which they can then spend however they need to ." @vox.com www.vox.com/future-perfe...
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How to help everyday people suffering in Iran — and beyond
Getting aid to civilians during wartime is difficult. Here’s the best approach.
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GiveDirectly @give-directly.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
There are just 10 days left to give to our Zakat campaign and help send $550 cash to 900 families in Mozambique. 100% of donations given through this page will be delivered directly to Zakat-eligible families in need: Givedirectly.org/zakat.
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GiveDirectly @give-directly.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Guess there’s still one thing that both sides want: faster disaster relief.
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GiveDirectly @give-directly.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
We're monitoring the growing impacts of the #IranWar, scoping three areas to potentially deploy emergency cash ⬇️ www.givedirectly.org/middle-east-...
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Cash Relief for Families Affected by the Middle East Conflict | GiveDirectly
Help us get cash to families hit hardest by the escalating conflict in Iran and across the Middle East — wherever the need is greatest.
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GiveDirectly @give-directly.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Madagascar was hit by 2 major cyclones in 2 weeks. 680,000+ affected yet it hardly made the news. Yesterday, we sent the first 900 emergency cash payments, just 18 days after landfall. GiveDirectly.org/cyclonefytia
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GiveDirectly @give-directly.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Cash to new mothers isn't poverty relief—it's health infrastructure. TIME100 Health just recognized two GiveDirectly programs proving this from Kenya to Michigan. When mothers have cash, babies survive and thrive. time.com/collections/...
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TIME100 Health: Nick Allardice
Find out why Nick Allardice is on the TIME100 Health 2026 list.
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GiveDirectly @give-directly.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
The @washingtonpost.com put emergency cash aid in the 50 ideas shaping our society this year ⬇️
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GiveDirectly @give-directly.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Billionaires, our line is open: GiveDirectly.org/majorgifts h/t @rutgerbregman.com
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GiveDirectly @give-directly.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
🎧 A new podcast for your holiday travel: No Strings Attached – listen to our latest episode on how cash transfers dropped child mortality by 48% in Kenya. plinkhq.com/i/1861894364...
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Early reflections on giving money to moms & babies - Podcast Episode Links - Plink
Podcast Episodes smart links to listen, download, and subscribe to No Strings Attached with GiveDirectly. Click to listen! In August, The New York Times ran the headline: A New Way to Reduce Child Dea...
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GiveDirectly @give-directly.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
💸 We’ve launched our last match of the year: your donation will be doubled through Dec. 31 or until funds run out. Help us send cash to even more families in poverty in 2026. givedirectly.org/match
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2x your impact for families most in need | GiveDirectly
For this Giving Tuesday, multiply your impact and send life-changing cash to 437 Rwandan families in need to deliver ~$1,100 per family to spend on what they need most. While match funds last, your do...
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What Can I Do? @whatcanido-earth.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Hey Sh*t Givers 🌎 We have something big, like change the actual world big (because the world won't unfuck itself). We are joining podcasts across the planet for #PodsFightPoverty, a campaign directly supporting our good friends at @give-directly.bsky.social www.givedirectly.org/podsfightpov...
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Pods Fight Poverty: 2x your impact for 700+ Rwandan families in poverty | GiveDirectly & Giving Multiplier
Join us in sending life-changing cash to 700+ Rwandan families, with your favorite podcasters helping deliver ~$1,100 per family to spend on what they need most. While match funds last, your donation…
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
I also give a plug for the Pods Fight Poverty effort organized by @give-directly.bsky.social. Chip in to help families in Rwanda! www.givedirectly.org/podsfightpov...
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Pods Fight Poverty: 2x your impact for 700+ Rwandan families in poverty | GiveDirectly & Giving Multiplier
Join us in sending life-changing cash to 700+ Rwandan families, with your favorite podcasters helping deliver ~$1,100 per family to spend on what they need most. While match funds last, your donation ...
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Eat This Podcast @eatthispodcast.com · 15/12/2025
The easiest way to be absolutely certain that the gift you give is exactly what the recipient wants. eatthispodcast.com/give-again #podcast #nutrition #poverty @give-directly.bsky.social
Cover artwork, a detail from The Gift of the Magi by Hieronymus Bosch, showing a Black man wearing a crown and a bearded White man in a turban, both with golden gifts.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 02/12/2025
Our Substack fundraiser with @give-directly.bsky.social is running until Dec 31, but their Giving Tuesday match is only live until midnight tonight! Help claim the remaining $300K match funds before they expire: lnk.thebulwark.com/4owWj30
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Substackers Fight Poverty: 1.5x your impact for 800+ families in Rwanda | GiveDirectly
Join us in sending life-changing cash to 800+ Rwandan families, with your favorite Substack writers helping deliver ~$1,100 per family to spend on what they need most. While match funds last, your donation will be 1.5x matched, and every $100 you give becomes $150 for families in need.
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GiveDirectly @give-directly.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
🚨 We still have $300k in match funds that will expire at midnight ET. Give now to get 1.5x matched, and help us fill our #GivingTuesday match in the next 7 hours! www.givedirectly.org/givingtuesda...
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Giving Tuesday: 1.5x your impact for 437 Rwandan families in poverty | GiveDirectly
For this Giving Tuesday, multiply your impact and send life-changing cash to 437 Rwandan families in need to deliver ~$1,100 per family to spend on what they need most. While match funds last, your do...
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Jeremy Ney @jeremybney.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
I’m working with GiveDirectly and a group of authors to fight global poverty. I’ll be matching donations this week and so will @give-directly.bsky.social - you can be a real change-maker! open.substack.com/pub/american...
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Joining Derek Thompson and Matthew Yglesias to fight global poverty
GiveDirectly is making a world of difference. Join us in driving that change forward.
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GiveDirectly @give-directly.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Hear from Athanasie in Rwanda about how the cash aid she received from last #GivingTuesday transformed her life. Give today and have your donation matched: GiveDirectly.org/gt
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GiveDirectly @give-directly.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
‼️ Give directly to 437 Rwandan families in poverty, and your donation will be 1.5x matched until midnight ET for #GivingTuesday. This means every $100 will turn into $150 for a family in need: givedirectly.org/GT
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Giving Tuesday: 1.5x your impact for 437 Rwandan families in poverty | GiveDirectly
For this Giving Tuesday, multiply your impact and send life-changing cash to 437 Rwandan families in need to deliver ~$1,100 per family to spend on what they need most. While match funds last, your do...
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GiveDirectly @give-directly.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
"I have found myself increasingly convinced that the best way to help people facing catastrophe is to support local organizations working closest to them on the ground — and, whenever possible, give those people money directly."
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GiveDirectly @give-directly.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
This week at #COP30, the UN launched a $125B forest conservation fund. But how will that money reach the people who keep forests standing? Below, we explore how direct cash transfers could help & what more we need to learn ⬇️ www.givedirectly.org/reverse-defo...
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Can giving people direct cash reverse deforestation? | GiveDirectly
Read about how cash transfers can help the UN’s new $125 billion Tropical Forests Forever Fund deliver on its promise—empowering local communities, reducing poverty, and protecting the forests that su...
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GiveDirectly @give-directly.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
The shutdown is over, but millions of families are still waiting on full SNAP benefits. Until those payments resume, we’ll keep sending direct cash so they can keep food on the table: GiveDirectly.org/snap
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GiveDirectly @give-directly.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
The shutdown is over, but families are still waiting on full SNAP benefits. Until those payments resume, we’ll keep sending direct cash so they can keep food on the table: GiveDirectly.org/snap
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Mike Scollins @mikescollins.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
good resource for families in danger of losing SNAP benefits and good place to donate funds if you're able GiveDirectly.org/snap
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Send cash to Americans missing their SNAP food benefits | Propel & GiveDirectly
Donate directly to families at risk of hunger due to the U.S. government shutdown.
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GiveDirectly @give-directly.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
We’ve send emergency cash to 184,701 SNAP families so far and are paying more each day. Give now and your donation will be delivered ASAP: GiveDirectly.org/snap #snapbenefits #shutdown #food #relief
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GiveDirectly @give-directly.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
1 in 10 veterans depend on SNAP to put food on the table. The U.S. government’s still shut down and their benefits are on hold. Help them feed their families: GiveDirectly.org/snap
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GiveDirectly @give-directly.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
1 in 10 veterans depend on SNAP to put food on the table. The U.S. government’s still shut down and their benefits are on hold. Help them feed their families: GiveDirectly.org/snap
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GiveDirectly @give-directly.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
We ID'ed 5 rural communities in St. Elizabeth Parish where poverty is high, hurricane damage was severe, and most aid has not reached. Now we're enrolling families for $650 each in direct cash relief: GiveDirectly.org/jamaica
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GiveDirectly @give-directly.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
🚨Millions more are missing their monthly SNAP food benefits every day that passes with no clear restart date despite recent court rulings: GiveDirectly.org/snap
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GiveDirectly @give-directly.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
We're delivering recovery cash to families in the hardest-hit areas of Jamaica: GiveDirectly.org/jamaica
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GiveDirectly @give-directly.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
We've sent emergency cash to over 133,000 of the lowest-income SNAP families nationwide to they can keep food on the table during the U.S. government shutdown. Help us reach more: GiveDirectly.org/snap
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 06/11/2025
If you're not aware of your ability to do this to help, you can donate via @give-directly.bsky.social directly to SNAP recipients via a debit card they can use on anything, unlike SNAP that limits usage to politician-approved expenditures. So far they've raised $12.6M. (+$50 from me just now)
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Donate to SNAP families missing food benefits | Propel & GiveDirectly
Millions are missing SNAP benefits during the shutdown. Donate now to send $50 emergency cash to families fast via the Propel app.
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GiveDirectly @give-directly.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
You can help send emergency cash the lowest-income SNAP families nationwide to help them keep food on the table: GiveDirectly.org/snap
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GiveDirectly @give-directly.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Support SNAP families missing their monthly benefits linktr.ee/colbertlateshow
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GiveDirectly @give-directly.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
"Direct cash aid isn’t a silver bullet; there are no silver bullets." The latest from our head of research Caitlin Tulloch👇 Givedirectly.org/nosilverbullets
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What giving people money doesn’t fix | GiveDirectly
Cash isn’t a silver bullet. It can’t replace missing or broken systems. GiveDirectly follows the evidence on where it works best.
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Robin Hood @robinhoodnyc.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
As the SNAP payment pause pushes thousands of NYers toward poverty, Robin Hood, Propel, & GiveDirectly are stepping in with immediate cash relief — $50 deposits for 38K households statewide. @robinhoodnyc.bsky.social @thepropelapp.bsky.social @give-directly.bsky.social robinhood.org/news/robin-h...
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Robin Hood Joins Propel and GiveDirectly to Launch $2 Million Emergency Fund for SNAP Recipients in New York
As federal SNAP payments pause, Robin Hood has joined Propel and GiveDirectly to launch a $2 million emergency fund providing immediate cash assistance to 38,000 of New York’s lowest-income households...
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GiveDirectly @give-directly.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
📲 We've enrolled 2,000+ families for emergency cash since SNAP payments lapsed yesterday. There's much more need than we have funding. Give now keep more families from going hungry ⬇️ GiveDirectly.org/snap
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Send cash to Americans missing their SNAP food benefits | Propel & GiveDirectly
Donate directly to families at risk of hunger due to the U.S. government shutdown.
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GiveDirectly @give-directly.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Reshare this to help U.S. families losing SNAP food benefits tomorrow🔁 GiveDirectly.org/snap
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GiveDirectly @give-directly.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Due to the U.S. gov't shutdown, SNAP food benefits will stop for millions starting on Saturday with no clear restart date. You can help: GiveDirectly.org/snap
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GiveDirectly @give-directly.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
SNAP benefits will stop for millions on Nov. 1 due to the U.S. government shutdown. Help send emergency cash to the lowest-income families as soon as their payments are missed: GiveDirectly.org/snap
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Send cash to Americans missing their SNAP food benefits | Propel & GiveDirectly
Donate directly to families at risk of hunger due to the U.S. government shutdown.
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GiveDirectly @give-directly.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Hurricane Melissa hit Jamaica with 185 mph winds and flash floods. 50K+ displaced. 500K without power. The southwest farming region is underwater, threatening a prolonged crisis. 💸Send cash to help families recover. GiveDirectly.org/jamaica
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Cash Relief for Hurricane Melissa Survivors in Jamaica | GiveDirectly
Donate directly to Hurricane Melissa survivors in Jamaica to help them rebuild and recover.
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GiveDirectly @give-directly.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Give now so we can deliver cash relief to families once the storm passes: GiveDirectly.org/jamaica
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GiveDirectly @give-directly.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Send cash relief to Jamaican families so they can recover quickly from Hurricane Melissa. GiveDirectly.org/jamaica
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Cash Relief for Hurricane Melissa Survivors in Jamaica | GiveDirectly
Donate directly to Hurricane Melissa survivors in Jamaica to help them rebuild and recover.
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GiveDirectly @give-directly.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
"People experiencing poverty best understand what they need to escape it"🔥
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 23/10/2025
GiveDirectly gave $550 to every adult in the Khongoni subdistrict of Malawi, reaching over 85,000 people. It was enough outside money to double local GDP. Extreme poverty plummeted by 88%. Inflation was negligible. Now they're going even bigger by giving $550 to 185,000 people - an entire district.
Doubling local GDP didn’t drive inflation
Our large scale cash injection was equivalent to doubling the economy in Khongoni. Compared to surrounding areas, inflation in Khongoni rose by about 1% – a statistically detectable but economically negligible effect. After five months, this had fallen to zero.

Markets were able to absorb large-scale transfers without driving significant price inflation. That gives us strong evidence that this model can be scaled responsibly and rapidly without triggering harmful inflation.

This stability was a product of how recipients and markets responded:

🗓️ Recipients didn’t spend all at once: Findings showed households did not spend all of the transfer immediately and gradually increased their spending over months.
🚲 They also shopped around: Recipients had access to multiple markets, locally and in nearby Lilongwe city, allowing them to choose between sellers if someone didn’t have what they needed or tried to raise prices. 
🤝 Vendors chose not to raise prices: Traders reported keeping prices steady to maintain trust, saying opportunistic hikes would damage their reputation once the cash was gone.
📦 Markets adapted to demand: Many vendors simply ordered more stock and new traders entered markets, both without significantly driving up prices.
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GiveDirectly @give-directly.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Giving money directly to people in poverty can boost local economies 2.5x GiveDirectly.org/multiplier 🧵
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Rest of World @restofworld.org · 23/10/2025
A new AI is designed to give advice to Malawi farmers, who are struggling with the impact of climate change. The tool, which speaks the local language, uses ChatGPT, and is trained on government data and traditional knowledge to help fight pests, drought, and misinformation
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Malawi’s new farmhand: AI that speaks the local language
Ulangizi AI combines ChatGPT’s power with traditional know-how and government data to help crops — and families — flourish.
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CSAE @oxfordcsae.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
🗞️Research by the CSAE's Kate Orkin (& @eggerdennis.bsky.social) featured in @theguardian.com's ''Just money, with no strings attached’: how direct cash transfers are giving women in rural Kenya a new life'👇 @give-directly.bsky.social @blavatnikschool.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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‘Just money, with no strings attached’: how direct cash transfers are giving women in rural Kenya a new life
Financial support given directly to the women in rural Kilifi county has cut both infant mortality and deaths among under fives, while boosting village businesses
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Tech Jobs for Good @techjobsforgood.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Help end poverty through direct giving to the world's poorest households! @give-directly.bsky.social is hiring! Role: Product Lead (Platform)/Staff Product Manager Location: Remote (Global) Learn more 👉 techjobsforgood.com/companies/gi... #TechForGood #TechJobs #RemoteJobs #Hiring #JobAlert
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