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2/9: The Regulator’s Dilemma: Navigating Competition Policy http://shar.es/mn2lq via#microfinance
2/9: Cell-phone banking offers financial help to Third World - http://bit.ly/5DF7fH#microfinance
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2/8: MICROCAPITAL PAPER WRAP-UP: Behavioral Foundations of Microcredit http://bit.ly/aUu5dB #microfinance
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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