Here are the articles and blogs we've been perusing over the past few weeks. Let us know if we have missed any essential must-reads in that time via comments.

• Cash transfers vs. microloans on the GiveWell blog
• Is Chiapis the next Andhra Pradesh? Updated with a correction from Daniel Rozas
• Jonathan Morduch on What's Next? External Validity and Making RCTs more useful
• Mexico's Housing Development --where poor people won't live (video)
• What'sNext? Understanding & Improving Microenterprise Performance by Beaman, Magruder, & Robinson
• IFC reports huge unmet demand for microfinance
• The state of microcredit by David Roodman
• The end of absolute poverty is closer than you think by Charles Kenny (in the Globe and Mail)
• How the internet reinforces inequality
• Inequality, not poor schools, explains low U.S. test scores
• Income inequality in the US-- check your block with this interactive map
• Life at the margins of America's financial mainstream
• Can the Payday Loan be Reinvented?