Cash transfers in Africa exhibit many contradictions specific to development aid and humanitarian aid. The norms defined by international institutions and NGOs for accessing such ?manna? are in fact not approved by local beneficiaries, who nevertheless keep quiet, while smoothly circumventing...

Cash Transfer programs in Africa have recently become, after other continents, a privileged formula for humanitarian aid and development assistance. In Niger, a sum of money is unconditionally transferred directly to the beneficiary, identified as amongst the poorest of the poor. But this is...