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: 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