Friday round up: Kenya closes money transfer firms post-Garissa, the why of stunted Indian children, satellites and rural development, and the Social Progress Index

Kenya is criticised for closure of money transfer firms following Garissa attack.
 
Why are Indian children so short? is a question probed in a research paper by Jayachandran and Pande.
 
MIT published a paper recently on using satellite images for rural development. Read the article and the paper.

Tom Murphy writes in Humanosphere about the 2015 Social Progress Index and how some governments looking to social progress as new development benchmark.