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2/4: FAI research from "Half the World is Unbanked" cited in Susy Cheston's Congressional testimony on #microfinance. http://bit.ly/di2KfN
2/3: New version of the FAI paper "Microfinance Games" available at http://bit.ly/9cH7I4. #microfinance
2/3: New version of the FAI paper "Behavioral Foundations of Microcredit" released at http://bit.ly/bOSd15. #microfinance
2/2: Microfinance requires no donor money, says MicroRate's Stauffenberg http://bit.ly/cun4Ej What about "Smart Subsidies"? http://bit.ly/9TmsrC
2/1: RT @poverty_action An "anti-nudge" on the way to Mexico...http://poverty-action.org/node/2570
2/1: Great video of Sendhil Mullainathan alking at TEDIndia: "Solving social problems with a nudge". http://bit.ly/cplO1A
2/1: New microinsurance journal launched at http://micro-risk.com/. #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