Our weekly round-up of what we've been reading online:
- Savings and the poor: A better mattress from The Economist
- More on average effect of aid vs differential impacts of aid at AIDWATCH
- "Microfinance and Social Investment" a new paper from Jonathan Conning and Jonathan Morduch
- Washington Post article on the Indian microfinance crisis and its impact on women
- “More Than 1 Billion People Are Hungry in the World” by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo and in Foreign Policy
- Bdnews24 has the dirt on Grameen from new investigative report. 7 articles herecollected by David Roodman.
- New blog on village finance
- "Linking Health and Microfinance," the potential for microfinance to promote universal healthcare in India
- First details of Grameen probe: empire of related companies illegal
- The new fad of cash transfers: what they accomplish, and what they don't at AIDWATCH
- David Roodman blogs about the truth behind an IRIN news service headline misrepresenting BRAC: Not Exactly "Pushing"
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- Tim Ogden