In order to improve the way that aid is done we need disruptive, catalytic changes in practices that transform other habits and practices in positive ways. Cash has the potential to fundamentally challenge how we do business.
Well let’s see: for one thing I have children and there are expectations associated with this time of year. Then there are the rent, the bills, the shopping. It’s quite useful when you need to get a taxi from the airport in Geneva as, bizarrely, little bits of plastic don’t seem to get you very far in the world’s most advanced banking nation.