{"id":1650,"date":"2011-04-05T09:40:43","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T13:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/?p=1650"},"modified":"2011-04-05T09:40:43","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T13:40:43","slug":"excellent-podcast-on-microfinance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/1650","title":{"rendered":"Excellent Podcast on Microfinance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the most popular posts on this blog after <a title=\"Contributing to Public Goods: Primers on Regression and Causality\" href=\"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/contributing-to-public-goods-primers-on-regression-and-causality\/\" target=\"_blank\">the one in which I make available my handouts on linear regression and on causality<\/a> and <a title=\"Contributing to Public Goods: How to (Maximize the Likelihood That You Will) Do Well in Your Economics Class\" href=\"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/2011\/02\/contributing-to-public-goods-how-to-maximize-the-likelihood-that-you-will-do-well-in-your-economics-class\/\" target=\"_blank\">the one in which I make available my handout on how to do well in econ courses<\/a> are the series of posts I wrote at the beginning of the year on microfinance.<\/p>\n<p>In that spirit, I wanted to link to this excellent Guardian <a title=\"Does Microfinance Help People Escape Poverty?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/audio\/2011\/apr\/01\/focus-podcast-development-microfinance\" target=\"_blank\">podcast<\/a> on microfinance, which popularizes the key issues in coming up with an answer to whether microfinance help reduce poverty. The podcast features host Madeleine Bunting, academics Ha-Joon Chang and David Roodman, as well as CARE International&#8217;s Ajaz Khan and SKS Microfinance founder Vikram Akula.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the most popular posts on this blog after the one in which I make available my handouts on linear regression and on causality&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/1650\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Excellent Podcast on Microfinance<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,55,49,12],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-1650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","category-economics","category-impact-evaluation","category-policy","tag-microfinance","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gPg8-qC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1650"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1654,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions\/1654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}