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Refugee Aid Switches to Cash

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Aug 14, 2014
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The recent announcement that the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) is giving cash transfers to the worst-hit families in the Philippines affected by Super Typhoon Yolanda/Haiyan is an indication of how the approach to relief is changing across the world. Direct cash payments to the afflicted are becoming much more the rule.

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