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3/19: Financial architect finds out how the poor live on $2 a day http://bit.ly/a7bUfq#microfinance
3/19: FAI report "Half the World is Unbanked" published in the McKinsey Quarterly: http://bit.ly/avouNe #microfinance
3/18: "Microfinance: Dream vs.reality" http://bit.ly/b9FwHO #microfinance
3/18: Stuart Rutherford: "Poor households in the financial diaries used 9-10 different financial tools to manage their money" http://bit.ly/99GsNE
3/16: Interview with Stuart Rutherford:"Micro-finance guru unveils new vision for poor" http://bit.ly/cDo346 #microfinance
3/16: Idea of the day: "coping diaries" (like financial diaries) examining how people cope in both normal and crisis periods. http://bit.ly/c0Mw8B
3/16: New book explores the SHG movement in India: "#Microfinance Self-Help Groups in India: living up to their promise?" http://bit.ly/aeqZ4J

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