Want to see how big data and #AI can change access to SME Finance? Just look at Jack Ma’s $290 Billion Loan Machine Which Is Changing Chinese Banking and #SMEFinance buff.ly/30WXX3u #China #fintech

Be careful with inference from 2x2 experiments and other cross-cutting designs - I summarize a new paper by Karthik Muralidharan, Mauricio Romero, and @wuthrich_k which highlights interpretation and inference issues with common existing practice blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluati…

WhatsApp update could be the biggest in years - And it’s not Dark Mode | Express.co.uk buff.ly/2yjrhFd #payments #WhatsApp #Facebook

RT Dr Efi Pylarinou While Facebook's Libra plays at #decentralization, it's still entrenched in FB, and using it means trusting FB, which is a hard sell in 2019 #crpyto #libra buff.ly/2ISt211 Jim Marous 💯 Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻 Andreas Staub Laura Shin Urs Bolt 🇨🇭🇵🇭 Sen. Sally Eaves Brett King #TheFuturists #OptimalHumanity ✈️ Thomas Power

#Data can be #sexist. USAID, A4NH_CGIAR & Gates Foundation' #GAAP2 are working to bridge the #gender data gap to see how #agricultural development projects reach, benefit & #empower #women. #TransformAgPeople Read Agnes Quisumbing' full blog post here: bit.ly/2El7OHW

Many congratulations Ravish. Radhika and I believe that what you have done is a huge victory for journalism in India. May others have the courage to learn from your brilliance and humility - unchanged in the 23 years you have been with NDTV. #RavishKumar

Our Ethiopia ultra poor program evaluation highlighted on PBS NewsHour! Thanks everyone who helped bring this to fruition. Piece is here: scientific approach to evaluating global anti-poverty programs youtu.be/BqqMnaCtv44 via Innovations for Poverty Action Rachel Glennerster

Social protection in rich countries: How to do better than a UBI (while also reaping the gains from international migration) economicsandpoverty.com/2019/09/21/soc… via Martin Ravallion

Don't miss it! This coming Wednesday, October 30, I'll be sitting down at Center for Global Development to chat with Michael Kremer -- who won the Economics Nobel prize last week, together with Banerjee & Duflo. Register to come and ask him your own questions in person! cgdev.org/event/conversa…

We expected - based on strong gender norms & stereotypes - that women (men) would invest more in non-farm businesses (crop farming). The surprising result: the gap in revealed preferences is much smaller than we expected (and disappears when controlling for norms). Read more 🔽

Attrition, what now? A short guide and a really neat tool!

An effective price comparison mechanism could save customers up to Kshs 11,150 in bank fees in a year. ~ Cost of Banking 2018 Report bit.ly/FSD-Cost-of-Ba… #CostOfBanking #InclusiveFinance #ValueOfFinance #MeaningfulFinance

Erick Boy HarvestPlus final remark: "Let's let the plants do the work and farmers can decide." #biofortification #agriculture

#COVID19 is a critical wake-up call to rethink, redesign, reprioritize our food systems. 1️⃣ Nutrition as the first line of defense 2️⃣ Social safety nets must prioritize micronutrients 3️⃣ Focus on resilience 4️⃣ Scale proven technological solutions 👉bit.ly/2Xu8t3w

#COVID19 has spurred on a digital transformation - but what exactly is changing, and who is involved? 🤔 @jcdonner of Caribou Digital explains why it’s important we pay attention to how the new digital world 🌐 is being shaped: #GoodID👍🆔 good-id.org/en/articles/co…

Couldn’t agree more. To build back better after #COVID19 sustainable production needs to be included. #food systems 4 future have to serve (physical & cognitive) #health of #people as well as #health of our #planet. So agenda’s & actors together need to connect & collaborate.

Weekly links June 5: pretty tables, measuring learning remotely, new survey results, and more… blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluati…

This is what a failed lockdown looks like.

#agribusiness #COVID19 #nutrition read recent Blog on the opportunity for improved food systems Ekin Birol (She/Her) Arun Baral Destan Aytekin Basanta kumar kar