Radical Departure in Andhra Pradesh Debate: Data
11/12/10
...more precisely: systematically collected data about clients.
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Eavesdropping on a Microfinance Conference
1/17/10
Couldn't make it to the annual research conference hosted by the Centre for Microfinance (CMF) and the College of Agricultural Banking (CAB) in Pune, India, last week? Neither could I. Not invited? Actually neither was I. But as far as I can tell, CMF is the brightest spot on earth for quality research on financial services for the poor. They are worth watching. I suppose this post is the next best thing to being there.
Microfinance and the Market Test
9/28/09
Here's the end of Rich Rosenberg's new review of Portfolios of the Poor:
Actual Poor Person, Live on the Air
6/17/09
National Public Radio's "On the Point" talked to Daryl Collins and Stuart Rutherford about Portfolios of the Poor...and, wonderfully, to one of the circa-$2/day people whose finances were chronicled. His name is Lufefe and he lives in Langa township outside of Cape Town, South Africa. He enters the show at 20:00.
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.
Cross-post Review/Jyothi Makes the Economist
5/23/09
On CGD's Voices from the Center blog, I just posted a review of Portfolios of the Poor: How the World’s Poor Live on $2 a Day, by Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford, and Orlanda Ruthven.
Chapter 2 main post: How the Other Half Finances
2/17/09
Aside from the "bookend" chapters (now there's an odd metaphor), this book is really a series of perspectives on microfinance: the historian's perspective, the microfinance manager's perspective, the economist's perspective, and so on. The first perspective, in chapter 2 (.doc .pdf), is that of poor clients.
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