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
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