A sampling of what we've been reading this week from around the web:
- FAI Researcher Jonathan Bauchet on "Details Matter: Insurance Makes Sense, So Why Isn’t it More Popular?"
- Nickeled and Dimed author Barbara Ehrenreich on "American Poverty, 50 years Later"
Some TED Talks that you may not have heard:
- Sendhil Mullainathan on "Solving Social Problems with a Nudge"
- Esther Duflo on "Social Experiments to fight Poverty"
- Eldar Shafir: "Living under Scarcity"
- Hans Rosling's "New Insights on Poverty"
- Nokia Researcher Jan Chipchase on how people interact with mobile phones.
- Iqbal Quadir says mobile phones fight poverty
- Richard Wilkinson on "How economic inequality harms societies."
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