In a small community off the coast of Sierra Leone, Salamatou Bangura often struggled to 
feed her children. Though she worked long hours buying and selling seafood from the local fisherman in her village, until recently, it wasn’t enough. “I couldn’t afford to cook every day,” she recalls.
That all changed when she began to receive $10 every month through a social safety net program for extremely poor households. Bangura began using the money to put food on the table, pay school fees, and invest in her business. And when tragedy struck, and the family home burned down, Bangura used the money to rebuild, all the while ensuring that her children remained well-fed and in school.
profound impact on the workforce. 
need to adapt a central bank’s governance structure to its changing purpose, writing that “‘putting new wine into old bottles’ is safe only when you watch the condition of the bottle, and adapt its structure most carefully.” This metaphor is particularly useful in understanding new and emerging challenges involved in tailoring the structure of financial policy governance in the post-crisis era.
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