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Blog / May 21, 2013

Savings Crisis in West Bengal

In the past few weeks, the local government of West Bengal has been embroiled in a financial and political crisis that has potentially large impacts on the state’s poor and its MFIs. After...

Blog / May 17, 2013

Impact Evaluation of Compartamos Released

The long-awaited impact study of Compartamos, led by Manuela Angelucci of the University of Michigan and Dean Karlan and Johnathan Zinman of IPA, has finally been published. The research team used a...

Blog / May 14, 2013

Reliability of Self-Reported Data - Diaries and Alternative Methodologies

In last week’s blog post, I suggested that self-reported data should be supplemented with objective sources of information from independent third-party entities. Sometimes, however, independent data...

Blog / May 10, 2013

Links We Like

Stories from around the web that we've been reading here at FAI. Tell us if we've been missing any must-reads via comments.

Blog / May 9, 2013

Wagner’s Jonathan Morduch on Reimagining Banking for Half the World’s Adults

Half of the adults in the world are “unbanked” -- about 2.5 billion people. That’s the starting point of a new book, Banking the World: Empirical Foundations of Financial Inclusion, published by the...

Big Questions

Big Questions is a resource for the latest thinking and analysis on the opportunities and challenges of expanding financial access. Stay tuned: Insurance and Payments coming soon.