Microcredit has arguably been through more ups and downs than virtually any modern poverty intervention. For decades up through the 1980s, the thought was that the poor would never repay…
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Recently I had the opportunity to take part in a webinar that discussed the status of microcredit, specifically whether or not researchers believe it works. To complement a piece on…
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For the past several years, a number of co-authors and I have been working on a series of projects that have explored the relationship between the psychology of poverty and…
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[Note for non-economist readers of Across Two Worlds, the following post may induce drowsiness and probably should not be ingested while driving a motor vehicle or operating heavy machinery.] In…
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