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Part of our mission at FAI is to frame policy and regulatory issues by synthesizing evidence from existing research and generating new evidence where it's lacking.

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Week of April 8, 2013

By Financial Access Initiative

Mostly blogs and articles we've been perusing over the past few weeks.

  • This clip  has great graphics to show the world's unequal wealth distribution via @owenbarder
  • FAI Archive: Research by Jonathan Morduch and Barabara Kiviat re: state of U.S. financial literacy (April is financial literacty month)
  • Health Insurance reduces borrowing and increases consumption 
  • New DFID report synthesizing info on microcredit and ultrapoor 
  • U.S. Taxcode isn't as progressive as you think 
  • Anyone interested in randomized trials in development should read this. "Scaling up" not a footnote to "what works?" 
  • Economist Sendhil Mullainathan asks leading thinkers what's the question in your field you most dread being asked

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