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
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