MIT News
CFSP member Robert M. Townsend speaks with MIT News about a new study with co-authors Jonathan Gruber and...
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April 30, 2014
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January 29, 2014
MIT News
MIT News interviews CFSP member Tavneet Suri, discussing her background in Kenya and research interests. Suri is currently conducting research on Kenya's mobile money system, M-Pesa, the political environment in Kenya, and economic development in...
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November 7, 2013
Financial Access Initiative
In this blog post, Jean Lee looks at the growing body of research on mobile money. She highlights a number of studies, including those by CFSP Members Tavneet Suri and ...
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November 6, 2013
Financial Access Initiative
This blog post by Alicia Brindisi discusses CFSP Faculty Director Robert M. Townsend's recent paper, "Accounting for the Poor", and explores ideas...
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October 24, 2013An Overview by Robert M. Townsend
Robert M. Townsend, Faculty Director of CFSP, tells how financial accounts can be applied to households running businesses in developing countries, similar to their corporate counterparts. This method can be useful in understanding changes in household wealth, with...
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October 24, 2013
In this video interview, CFSP Faculty Director Robert M. Townsend addresses how general equilibrium models can be used in development economics to explain financial access and to identify policies that allow for more inclusive financial systems.
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October 24, 2013
CFSP Faculty Director Robert M. Townsend discusses why a view of the entire economy is important in considering financial development. He explains that an applied general equilibrium approach can capture details of the inter-relationships among micro and macro levels of...
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October 24, 2013
This video interview features CFSP Faculty Director Robert M. Townsend and his work on optimal risk-sharing among households in developing countries.
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October 24, 2013An Overview by Robert M. Townsend
This video interview with CFSP Faculty Director Robert M. Townsend speaks to the use of micro-founded macro models and their use in development. Townsend discusses the process by which such models can be used as a conceptual foundation for quantifying the welfare gains...
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October 14, 2013
The Economist
This article explores planned large-scale infrastructure -- including high speed rail -- and stimulus spending in Thailand. Opponents of the program have called for fiscal...