I will save you the energy of having to read my opinions and this time only direct you to the places they come from:
- The Times of India's Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar argues for the poverty reducing effects of high food prices for India's rural poor.
- Esther Duflo puts on a "virtuoso" performance in a Q & A session for the International Herald Tribune. Perhaps her most interesting answer involves her suggesting that "the extent to which [randomized evaluation] results generalize is actually surprisingly high."
- Ben Olken's paper "Monitoring Corruption: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia" is more fodder for people like me that believe the power of promoting grass roots participation in the provision of public goods is wildly overestimated.
- A nice brief explanation on why you don't want a "flat" interest rate (the form in which many MFIs present their loans) from Joydeep Ghosh.
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