Stories from around the web that we've been reading here at FAI. Tell us if we've been missing any must-reads via comments.
- A Patient's View on the Oregon Medicaid Experiment.
- "What is wrong (and right) in economics?" An Interview with Dani Rodrik.
- Cost of Delivering Rural Credit in India
- Timothy Ogden Participates in a Live chat: can the poor bank on financial services? (The chat appears in the comments section of The Guardian's blog.)
- The end of cash & the rise of prepaid cards in US
- Fine tuning money mgt concepts-- From income shaping to fuzzy goals by Ignacio Mas
- CGAP has published an insightful article on the relationship between market saturation and over-indebtedness
- The Reinhart-Rogoff episode: "There’s only one reliable way to verify empirical findings: Try to replicate them," say Betsy Stevenson and Justin Wolfers
- "Invest in Women? The effect of aid on female entrepreneurship." (on Chris Blattman's blog) Good discussion in the comments section, too!
- Banerjee and Ghatak on the chit fund crisis in W. Bengal
- If People Could Immigrate Anywhere, Would Poverty Be Eliminated?
- A Holistic Approach to Money Management by Elizabeth Rhyne
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