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The Business of Aid

When it comes to helping populations in crisis, is it better to hand out cash or donate goods? It's an ongoing debate in the non-profit sector. Owen Barder, Senior Fellow and Director for Europe at the Center for Global Development in London, explains why he thinks cash handouts work better.
Photo credit: A woman stands next to a red cross tent in a camp for migrants waiting to cross Greek-Macedonian border near the village of Idomeni, in northern Greece on October 14, 2015. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)

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