We focus on exploring how financial services can better meet the needs and improve the lives of poor households.
Read the blog post by Beth Rhyne. Photo: CEOs of the first Smart-Certified institutions in Bosnia accept their certificates.
Editor's Note: There are several webinar links below, but let me start with a couple that are upcoming and worthy of note. On October 28th, we'll have the next edition of the faiVLive, focused on savings—specifically, what we've learned about how poor households save, and how much we still don't know about how to effectively support savings. I'll be joined by Jonathan, as well as Jessica Goldberg (development economist at UMd), Gen Melford (Aspen Institute's Financial Security Program), and Jonathan Lee (Neighborhood Trust Financial Partners). As the guest list implies we'll be talking about this from both a US and developing country perspective. Register here.
Also, if you're from the development wing of the faiV readership, don't forget to register for virtual NEUDC, coming up November 6 and 7.
Since so many of you were very interested in my links questioning resilience a few weeks back, and since I don't have space for another item in this edition, here's what looks like a great new paper: A Scoping Review of the Development Resilience Literature: Theory, Methods and Evidence (short version: resilience is too ill-defined as yet to be all that useful).
Oh, and I missed you.
–Tim Ogden
Editor's Note: Of particular note, this Tuesday (September 15th) at 10am Eastern there is a special edition of faiVLive in Spanish covering Digital Financial Services in Latin America. I'll be hosting with Gabriela Zapata moderating, and Kiki DelValle, Barbara Magnoni, and Xavier Faz will be joining us. Register here.
I apologize in advance if the final links on resilience undermine your resilience at the beginning of the week.
–Tim Ogden