Articles, blogs and papers we've been reading over the past month:
- Obama to appoint Eldar Shafir to financial capability advisory council
- NYT: Big Data's Grassroots Revolution
- Eye-Witness Accounts of Vikram Akula's Humble Harvard Talk
- First Edition of the Oxford Companion to the Economics of Africa blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopm
- Mobile Banking and Financial Inclusion: two perspectives in Slate Magazine
- New credit-risk models for the unbanked, a new report from McKinsey on Society
- Ignacio Mas: "...what poor people need most is to be connected. With connections come opportunities."
- A new paper on the science of willpower
- Timothy Ogden on the Poor and the True Costs of Joining Financial Systems
- Microfinance in Bangladesh: It's Not What You Thought says Elisabeth Rhyne
- Daniel Rozas on "The Economics of Microsavings" and "High yield savings as the lynchpin of deposit-driven microfinance"
- David Leonhardt's must read on our middle-class entitlement
- Sendhil Mullainathan and Saugato Datta argue rich people make better parents in: Stress Impacts Good Parenting
- The Roodman-Bateman Debate: A CFI Dialogue
- NYT: Your mistaken belief in financial willpower
- What cash transfers tell us about the humanitarian community
Editor's Note:
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- Tim Ogden