Here is our short list of must reads for the week.
- FAI’s Jonathan Morduch and Barbara Kiviat preview the launch of a new research project on the financial lives of low-income Americans
- Two trends in global poverty --New report from Brookings
- A new report from the World Economic Forum on mobile finance
- The NYT and "India’s Anti-Poverty Programs Are Big but Troubled"
- Tina Rosenberg on Microinsurance for the NYT Fixes blog
- The Wall Street Journal on Financial Inclusion 2.0 & the need to focus microsavings
- Stuart Rutherford on "Saving Up is Hard to Do"
- David Bornstein on "A Book In Every Home, and Then Some" for the NYT Fixesblog.
- Gift Cards as Tools of Financial Inclusion
- Karlan and Appel on "Microfinance works, even without a Hollywood ending"
- Nick Kristof on smarter aid, economists, and Michael Kremer's work on deworming
- Is credit a human right? Yunus says yes. NYU's Gershman and Morduchdisagree in a new paper
- In letter to 8 million Grameen members, Yunus warns of gov attempt to take over
- Regulatory Architecture of India’s Financial System
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