The Use of Cash in U.S. Payments during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Manuel A. Bautista-González
February 15, 2021
A year after the Covid-19 pandemic spread globally, there is more data available to determine its impact on the use of cash in U.S. retail payments. The public has not stopped using cash, but some retailers have stopped accepting it altogether, threatening the economic well-being of large, vulnerable segments of U.S. consumers who use cash as their main means of payment.
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Humanitarian Financial Assistance - How to Reduce Risk and Improve Value
James Shepherd-Barron
October 21, 2020
The benefits of humanitarian financial assistance – what the aid world calls ‘Cash & Voucher Assistance (CVA)’ – are pretty well known: Giving people cash instead of food or other forms of in-kind commodity empowers recipients to address their own priorities, reduces opportunities for corruption, and pumps money into local economies. It is, generally speaking, a much more dignified and cost-effective way of meeting beneficiary needs.
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