Should we give money directly to the world's neediest?

Apr 19, 2016

A Kurdish refugee woman from the Syrian town of Kobani washes dishes at a refugee camp in the Turkish border town of Suruc, Sanliurfa province February 2, 2015. The Syrian Kurdish militia that drove Islamic State militants from Kobani with the help of U.S.-led air strikes said on Monday the radical Islamist group may now open new fronts against it in northeastern Syria. Redur Xelil, spokesman for the Kurdish YPG militia, said Islamic State forces were collapsing around Kobani, a town at the border with Turkey that became a focal point for the U.S.-led military campaign against Islamic State in Syria.

Ngaire Woods looks at the global aid system – and the potential benefits of cash transfers. Image: REUTERS/Umit Bektas

Ngaire Woods

Dean, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford

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