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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Following the Money - The Future of Cash
Michael G. Malloy
September 04, 2020
With the coronavirus pandemic moving past the six-month mark, one of the first notable side effects was a reduction in the use of physical greenbacks. The cash-out had several drivers: Most retail stores were closed or saw their operations greatly reduced, virtually all bars and restaurants that remained open could provide takeout service only, almost everyone who was able to began working from home, and online shopping from Amazon and other home-delivery options boomed.
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