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More Needed Research
10/28/10
Last week I attended the Microfinance Impact & Innovations Conference organized by the Financial Access Initiative (FAI) in New York.
Weekly Tweets for 2009-11-13
11/13/09
- The Global Access Gap--CGAP blog on their latest global financial access data http://bit.ly/4klDb1 #
- New Indicators of Financial Access--another CGAP blog on finance access data http://bit.ly/1TrI47 #
My Brain Made Me Do It (Again)
8/5/09
A month ago I blogged some reflections on transparency. Transparency is the motherhood and apple pie of microfinance, I wrote, if not in those words.
Distrusting the Debtor
6/10/09
A central question in judging microcredit: When can we as creditors trust the judgment of the poor as borrowers? These days we can all reel off examples of unwise borrowing in rich countries (though I daresay unwise lending is more to blame for the current crisis). Do the world's poorest people, with less margin for financial folly, borrow more prudently? Two things I've read recently tend toward opposite answers to this question.
My Brain Made Me Do It
3/6/09
Sendhil Mullainathan, the second MacArthur Fellow here blogged, writes in Seed Magazine about how human psychological foibles influence how we borrow and save:
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