- Part 1 of Timothy Ogden’s extended interview with Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo is now up
- An overview of current state of mobile phone use & services in East Africa
- Monetary Theory and Mobile Banking - Lessons from Kenya
- The MLK project on “Is there a business case for microinsurance?”
- Richard Thaler on smarter public policy in new McKQuarterly
- Reaching the Poor and Very Poor with Appropriate Savings Services
- The problem of WIZZIT vs. the success of M-PESA in serving the BOP
- New info re: low-income client financial behavior. Very useful for mobile money productdesign
- Consumer Financial Protection Bureau likely to be driven by Warren's tenets
- Jonathan Morduch's recent Science article in its entirety and unedited: “Why Finance Matters,” a commentary on Karlan & Zinman Philippines microfinance study also published in Science (gated)
- Ignacio Mas contrasts 2 e-payment Success Stories: PayPal and M-PESA
- "The Microfinance Contagion Scenario" by Timothy Ogden and David Roodman’s response and disagreement with the piece
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Editor’s Note: I’m going to assume that you are seeing plenty of AI content (news and papers, not AI slop, though I’m sure you’re getting plenty of that too) from other sources, so I’m trying to think hard about the marginal value that the faiV can provide. As far as I’ve gotten so far: a) make sure that directly AI-related content does not take up more than 2 of the 5 items, and b) try to focus specifically on the cybersecurity issue for financial inclusion. Beyond that, I’m open to feedback on the value you get from the faiV in relation to AI to help guide us in the future. On a different note, I’ll be making a brief cameo appearance at the e-MFP Inclusive Finance Conference to moderate the opening plenary. If you haven’t registered, do so and I hope to see you there! - Tim Ogden