The questions we need to be probing further are less about whether or not we should use cash programming in response to humanitarian crises (we should), and are more about how we go about it.
Last year, 2013, was the summer of love for cash transfers. Media outlets from the New York Times, to The Economist, to NPR’s This American Life all debated whether cash transfers now presented a new silver bullet for fighting global poverty. So what caused this peak in media interest?