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Transforming Humanitarian Aid with Cash Transfers: High Level Panel Report
Owen Barder
September 15, 2015
The High Level Panel on Humanitarian Cash Transfers published its report this week, concluding that the international system should take deliberate steps to seize two big opportunities to improve humanitarian aid.
REPORTS
Doing Cash Differently: How Cash Transfers Can Transform Humanitarian Aid
The High Level Panel on Humanitarian Cash Transfers
September 14, 2015
The Report of the High Level Panel on Humanitarian Cash Transfers shows why giving aid directly in the form of cash is often a highly effective way to reduce suffering and to make limited humanitarian aid budgets go further. We urge the humanitarian community to give more aid as cash, and to make ca...
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Humanitarian Cash Transfers: Six Things We Know and One (Big) Thing We Don’t
Theodore Talbot
August 31, 2015
There’s a growing consensus that humanitarian cash transfers can help to bridge the widening gap between needs and resources, empowering people affected by disaster and using local markets to deliver the goods and services we previously thought only aid agencies could provide.
Blog Post
On World Humanitarian Day: Could We Do Better with Cash?
Owen Barder
August 18, 2015
Owen Barder says World Humanitarian Day is an opportunity to honor humanitarian workers and organisations, but also an opportunity to think about how the world can do this better.
Blog Post
Forget the Fish, Forget the Fishing Rod. Give a Man Some Capital – Podcast with Chris Blattman
Rajesh Mirchandani
August 10, 2015
Give a man a fish, the old adage runs, and he’ll eat for a day, but teach a man to fish and he will eat forever. Professor Chris Blattman doesn’t think we should do either. “We’re saying don’t give a man a fish. Don’t teach a man to fish. Give them the capital to ...
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How Can We Fight the Pandemic of Global Violence against Women?
Sarah Dykstra
and
Charles Kenny
September 23, 2014
Domestic violence — overwhelmingly against women — is by far the most common form of violence in the world. About 350 million women across the planet have suffered severe physical violence from their intimate partner.
POLICY PAPERS
Money to the People: Estimates of the Potential Scale of Direct Dividend Payments in Africa
Marcelo Giugale
and
Nga Thi Viet Nguyen
May 21, 2014
Historical data shows that large natural resource endowments have not translated into better quality of life in Sub-Saharan Africa (“Africa” for short).