This is our late summer/back to school edition of Links We Like. Let us know if we missed anything critical over the summer!
- Tim Ogden on "Managing the Difficult Trade-offs in Microfinance Regulation"
- The US Financial Diaries Project is Hiring
- An anthropological perspective on Pay for Performance HT@KarenGrepin
- "The Aid Fungibility Debate and Medical Journal Peer Review" by David Roodman
- Dan Rozas on "Can Borrowers be Trusted to Reschedule their Own Loans?"
- "A network view of economic development" by Cesar Hidalgo and Ricardo Hausmann
- US Census Burea publishes its annual report on US income, poverty and health insurance coverage
- Tim Harford on the results from the world's largest RCT - "Cash on Delivery for the World's Poorest"
- BBC: "How Technology Democratized Development "
- Minnesota Post: "The problem with asking Are you Better Off" and ignoring counterfactuals
- Global remittance flows beautifully visualized
- Owen Barder's Complexity and development (presentation and podcast)
- "Conversations on Complexity: A Tribute to Elinor Ostrom" by Ben Ramalingam
- NYT: Churches go cashless
- The Atlantic: "The rise of economic segregation" -- Mapping income inequality in America
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