Financial Inclusion

It was recently brought to my attention that the UK Overseas Development Institute (ODI) has launched a new blog on development, aid effectiveness and G8 issues.

A recent paper by Sendhil Mullainathan looks at development economics through the lens of psychology. On property rights he says:

Martin Wolf asks: is aid petrol on a fire, or water on a plant? There are at least two negative views of aid (needless to say there are many positive ones, too). Both parallel views on the famous…

The poverty-reducing impact of remittances can be enhanced by policy changes in both the migrants’ countries of origin - mostly developing countries - and their new home countries.

The Emerging Markets Group, a consulting firm, organised a recent workshop on Aligning Private Sector Development Instruments with the focus on Africa; I attended. The report is here. Most of the…