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