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:
If you were hoping that the faiV would be a pleasant distraction from the overwhelming flow of AI-related content, sorry. For the record, the faiV had “ai” built in before Anthropic existed. And a housekeeping note: we’ve finally jumped ship from Mailchimp to NYU’s mailing platform—I guess if you’re reading this it’s been a seamless transition and if you’re not, well, you’re not. Feedback on the faiV’s content and format and delivery methods is always welcome, just drop me an email.
- Tim Ogden