Articles and papers we've been reading from around the web:
- Underbanked market data from Center for Financial Services Innovation & Core Innovation Capital
- TheAtlantic: $112,000-The true cost of losing your job in the Great Recession
- TheAtlantic: 1 in 15 Americans can be classified at the poorest poor
- NYT: Unbanked America with interactive map using data from new Pew Report
- David Roodman: How Donors and Investors See Microfinance Now
- Jonathan Morduch on Tom Heinemann and The Micro Debt film
- Jonathan Morduch: How much does Consumption Smoothing Contribute to the Welfare of Families?
- Weathering the Storm: Dan Rozas on MFI case studies and making good business decisions in tough times
- The Millennium Villages evaluation debate heats up, boils over and News Millennium Villages Project & Misconceptions about Impact Evaluation (comments well worth reading)
- Don’t Blink! The Hazards of Confidence by the Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman
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