Stuff we've been reading over the past few weeks of August:
- Can aid become more effective and have greater impact if we engage private sector?
- NYT: Scanning 2.4 billion eyes, India tries to connect poor to growth
- Geo-enabling Aid Data: What is, and what’s next
- Achieving Max Long Run Growth (and the Poor) discussed by leading economists
- Ed Glaeser on the future of economics: "Sciences Still Young" in Harvard Magazine
- From the Development Research Institute: Gates and Benevolent Autocrats of the Republic of Public Health, by Alanna Shaikh & Laura Freschi
- NYU's Jonathan Morduch and Jonathan Bauchet wonder if selective knowledge is hampering microfinance research?
- CGAP asks: Why do the poor not use savings accounts? Can qualitative research help answer the question?
- Solving the Debate on Absolute vs. Relative Poverty
- Lies, Damn Lies and Surveys About Foreign Aid by Charles Kenny for CGDev
- CGAP's CEO speaks about how full financial inclusion is possible in our lifetime, the role of profits and M-PESA, and more
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