Here's a snapshot of what captured our attention this week:
- Bill Easterly: One of the nicest aid grumps you'd ever want to meet
- Princeton Goes Open Access to Stop Staff from Handing All Copyright to Journals
- Do you read the FAI blog or visit our site? If so, we need you! Please take 2 minutes (really, that's all it takes) to take our website survey. Your input will ensure that we buid a user-friendly website.
- Dave Algoso and the Smart Aid Initiative did their own survey on user habits re: aid and development blogs. Their results are here.
- 10 Things We’ve Learned: #2 – Neither grants nor markets alone will solve the problems of poverty
- Global Dashboard on "What's really happening to inequality?"
- Timothy Ogden on "Revisiting Objections to RCTs" which inspired David Roodman's own contribution on the topic.
- Wikileaks: corruption alleged in Bangaldesh prime minister's office
- Dean Karlan wonders "What Percentage of Microfinance Loans Actually Go to Business Investment?"
- The Hindu newspaper on a new technological innovation: A slate for micro-finance
- Owen Barder contemplates the future of development cooperation and the creation of "posses" to tackle particular problems.
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