1. Financial Management: Communities in which social contracts are strong commonly use "social money" (non-cash modes of saving, storing, and transferring wealth) in daily transactions instead of cash. IMTFI
2. Consumer Protection: Isabelle Barrès, Director of the Smart Campaign, discusses the progress in developing and implementing consumer protection policies globally. NextBillion
3. Business Development: The world's most popular attempt at policy ranking might not actually tell us much about the reality. The Wall Street Journal
4. Mobile Money: One Colombian town's (rocky) attempt to go cashless is in some ways a metaphor for the slow growth of mobile money in many parts of the world. Fusion
5. Evidence-based Policy: If preregistration has an impact on medical research, what effect would it have on economic research? The Chronicle of Higher Education
In this animated video, CGAP explores 4 rules of thumb poor people use to manage their money.
Editors’ Note: Hi, Laura and Jonathan here. A few of the pieces this week come from people who spent years up close with how poor households actually handle money, and keep coming back with something more tangled than the story usually told, and more persistent. Tim will be back for the next edition. - Laura Freschi and Jonathan Morduch