Week of February 7, 2010

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2/9: The Regulator’s Dilemma: Navigating Competition Policy http://shar.es/mn2lq via#microfinance

2/9: Cell-phone banking offers financial help to Third World - http://bit.ly/5DF7fH#microfinance

2/9: Forbes.com: "How to protect the world's most vulnerable banking clients" http://bit.ly/aMKwNu #microfinance
  
2/8: RT@poverty_action: IPA research that's good for your heart (literally!) http://www.newsweek.com/id/233006

2/8: MICROCAPITAL PAPER WRAP-UP: Behavioral Foundations of Microcredit http://bit.ly/aUu5dB #microfinance

2/8: FAI invites you to an event with Muhammand Yunus at NYU on March 5th. RSVP at http://bit.ly/apyrMl #microfinance

Week of January 31, 2010

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2/4: FAI research from "Half the World is Unbanked" cited in Susy Cheston's Congressional testimony on #microfinance. http://bit.ly/di2KfN

2/3: New version of the FAI paper "Microfinance Games" available at http://bit.ly/9cH7I4. #microfinance

2/3: New version of the FAI paper "Behavioral Foundations of Microcredit" released at http://bit.ly/bOSd15. #microfinance

2/2: Microfinance requires no donor money, says MicroRate's Stauffenberg http://bit.ly/cun4Ej What about "Smart Subsidies"? http://bit.ly/9TmsrC

2/1: RT @poverty_action An "anti-nudge" on the way to Mexico...http://poverty-action.org/node/2570

2/1: Great video of Sendhil Mullainathan alking at TEDIndia: "Solving social problems with a nudge". http://bit.ly/cplO1A

2/1: New microinsurance journal launched at http://micro-risk.com/. #microfinance

Week of January 24, 2010

1/28: Reading @IFMRTrust's response (http://bit.ly/d8eEgB) to our post (http://bit.ly/80FNV2) on their first multi-originator securitization.

1/27: "The Economics of #Microfinance" is on Stuart Rutherford's Top 5 list of books on the poor and their money. http://bit.ly/cZNOoP

1/27: From Princess Maxima: Microfinance needs to come as part of a rounded policy aimed at fighting poverty effectively. http://bit.ly/8uXp1g

1/25: Jonathan Morduch tells stories from the financial diaries on CBC: http://bit.ly/I8qo(use CTRL+F to search for Morduch) #microfinance

Topics: Big Picture, Commercialization, Portfolios of the Poor and Poverty

Week of December 6, 2009

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12/7: Nice review of the book Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day. http://bit.ly/3UznuO #microfinance

12/7: Portfolios of the Poor = "must read" and "new bible" for social entrepreneurs combating poverty: http://tinyurl.com/ydt6gan #microfinance

12/7: Jonathan Morduch on Changing Microcredit on WBUR.org: http://bit.ly/7yhB4U#microfinance

12/8: RT @socialedge Portfolios of the Poor “How World’s Poor Live on $2 a Day” book:"myth exploding..about price points & market realities" http://bit.ly/6EhZLB

12/8: RT @davidroodman Nice anonymous @AidWatch post on pros and cons of RCTs http://bit.ly/7a3Gkl

12/9: They're talking about David Rooman's Kiva blog post--and former FAI intern Abby Gray's response to it. http://bit.ly/8sOsW3 #microfinance

12/11: Pour les francophones: "Le microcrédit attire les financiers" http://bit.ly/5KwCqD#microfinance
 

Week of November 29, 2009

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11/30: An ongoing FAI impact study with Compartamos makes the news in Mexico: http://bit.ly/6NMZkQ #microfinance

12/2: Jonathan Morduch takes stock of microfinance: http://bit.ly/5yXpia#microfinance

12/2: Just met with the Presidential Committee for the 2010 G-20 Summit in Korea--they want to put financial inclusion on the agenda.#microfinance

12/2: @RachelStrohm Thanks for your post on Banks and Microbanks. Glad it piqued your interest. http://bit.ly/5F3JlP #microfinance

12/3: At the US Treasury today speaking at the first meeting of the G-20 Financial Inclusion Experts Group.

12/4: Stuart Rutherford on BBC: Pioneering money management in Bangladesh's slums. http://bit.ly/6KYOoL #microfinance