We’ve crunched the numbers and compiled the list of FAI’s most viewed posts of last year:
- What’s Next: Another Repayment Crisis? by Daniel Rozas
- FAI Video: A Conversation with Pascaline Dupas
- What’s Next? External Validity by Jonathan Morduch
- The Death and Life of Cash by Timothy Ogden
- FAI Video: Dean Karlan Discusses Commitment Savings Research
- Beyond Business: Rethinking Microfinance - Timothy Ogden and Jonathan Morduch in Foreign Policy
- What's Next: Five Factors – Beyond Mobile Money – that will make Financially-Inclusive G2P a Reality by Jamie Zimmerman
- "How Microfinance Really Works" - Jonathan Morduch in Milken Review
- Impact Evaluation of Compartamos Released by Alicia Brindisi
Although popularity on the Internet is always something of a mystery, we think this list does a decent job reflecting what was important to us in 2013. We’re happy to see so much interest in our ongoing research on the financial lives of low-income Americans with the US Financial Diaries project.
To conclude, here’s our list of FAI Staff Picks—posts that didn’t win the Internet popularity contest, but we think deserve a second look for telling stories and drawing conclusions that are counterintuitive or different in some way from the usual rhetoric around financial inclusion and microfinance.
- Sorry, Cash Only: Returning to the World of the Banked by Alicia Brindisi (this series technically concluded in January 2014, but we’re making the rules here)
- Who Will Pay for Financial Inclusion? by Timothy Ogden
- FAI 101: Moral Hazard and Microinsurance
- How Microcredit Went Global by Jonathan Morduch
- Under-savers Anonymous: A US Chapter? by Julie Siwicki
Thank you for reading in 2013! And if there are topics you want to see covered in 2014, let us know in the comments.
Editor’s Note: I’m going to assume that you are seeing plenty of AI content (news and papers, not AI slop, though I’m sure you’re getting plenty of that too) from other sources, so I’m trying to think hard about the marginal value that the faiV can provide. As far as I’ve gotten so far: a) make sure that directly AI-related content does not take up more than 2 of the 5 items, and b) try to focus specifically on the cybersecurity issue for financial inclusion. Beyond that, I’m open to feedback on the value you get from the faiV in relation to AI to help guide us in the future. On a different note, I’ll be making a brief cameo appearance at the e-MFP Inclusive Finance Conference to moderate the opening plenary. If you haven’t registered, do so and I hope to see you there! - Tim Ogden