David Roodman's Microfinance Open Book Blog

• Walkability appears to raise home values http://t.co/21XbXa1v #
• Even for Internet businesses, location matters http://t.co/Xht3OWst #

Probably you agree that actions meant to help poor people should be guided by the best science about what works. (Or perhaps you also have a problem with motherhood and apple pie.) And probably you'd concede that part of what makes science science is replicability. Cold fusion is a scientific joke, not a scientific advance, because the experiments seeming to generate evidence of fusion at room temperature could not be independently reproduced.

• RT @TilmanEhrbeck: Great @theeconomist article on #microfinance for the ultra-poor. Is this BRAC though, not Bandhan? http://t.co/mqUnHXbg #

Back in 2009, my colleague Liliana Rojas-Suarez convened a meeting at CGD of a task force that would draft Policy Principles for Expanding Financial Access. Attendees included Jonathan Morduch of NYU; and Nachiket Mor of the IFMR Trust, who brought along Bindu Ananth.