Comments on: The Political Economy of Financial Inclusion Policy http://cfi-blog.org/2014/09/25/the-political-economy-of-financial-inclusion-policy/ Mon, 06 Jul 2015 15:44:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Center for Financial Inclusion http://cfi-blog.org/2014/09/25/the-political-economy-of-financial-inclusion-policy/#comment-77252 Wed, 01 Oct 2014 15:53:07 +0000 http://cfi-blog.org/?p=16193#comment-77252 Alex – Glad you enjoyed this post and its message resonated for you. Thanks very much for sharing your thoughts and experiences and also for broadening this political economy conversation. Appreciate your regular and fruitful contributions over the years!

]]> By: Alex Counts http://cfi-blog.org/2014/09/25/the-political-economy-of-financial-inclusion-policy/#comment-76117 Fri, 26 Sep 2014 17:48:02 +0000 http://cfi-blog.org/?p=16193#comment-76117 This is an excellent, short blog that delivers an clear and important message on a critical topic. As we often say in Grameen Foundation, on many issues where technology can revolutionize the options available to the poor, the technology itself is the easy part. Political economy is often underestimated as a factor (though hopefully less often as a result of this blog) — as is the gritty work of developing human networks to not only serve as cash-in and cash-out points, but to improve the quality of use as well as discoverability, especially for the most vulnerable and excluded.

I have written about the issue of the political economy as it relates to impact research, as I find it an under-appreciated element there, too. I raised this in my review of Dean Karlan and Jacob Appel’s book on this very same blog: http://cfi-blog.org/2012/09/05/alex-counts-on-karlan-and-appels-more-than-good-intentions/.

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