Updates

  1. Person pages list letters, writing, profiles and links as sortable tables with filters, and show each person's companies as links; Fund letters show each letter's description in its own column.
  2. Experts show a checked job title and a short description of each person; 30 more people have photographs.
  3. Every company, fund, university and publication the experts work for has a page listing the people there.
  4. Fund letters show each letter's thesis and filter by it; 225 person pages list the essays, columns and newsletter issues the person wrote.
  5. Person pages list every essay and newsletter issue a person wrote, and their own books as a table in List view.
  6. Recommends shows the five largest kinds of book and the rest under More; browse pictures load sooner.
  7. Podcasts and talks link the original episode, filter by Audio and video or Press, and list each publisher once.
  8. Pages are wider, Recommends has List and Grid, and a filter clicked again turns off.
  9. Book cards sit in a ruled grid with Open Library and Goodreads links and each book's one-line note.
  10. Funds is now Investors; each investor's styles are buttons that filter the table.
  11. Podcasts and talks on a person's page filter by year and publisher and show as a list or a grid of pictures.
  12. Quotes show only people's own words: 472 summaries written by list sites are gone.
  13. Country pages open from Browse again, and every link on the shelf lands on a page.
  14. Subject and person pages show their sections as tabs, and each book appears once on a person's page.
  15. Book cards show the quote, who said it and the source; grids show five cards to a row.
  16. On a phone, a menu holds the sections, search, Updates, Feedback and dark mode.
  17. Feedback takes a screenshot of the page with no browser prompt, opens a screenshot full size when you click it, and clears itself once sent.
  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
  19. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  20. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  21. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  22. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  23. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  24. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  25. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  26. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  27. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  28. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  29. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  30. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  32. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  33. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  34. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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Bangladesh

Asia Pacific

Microfinance is very well covered, from the founder's own account to sceptical audits of the evidence. The ready-made garment industry that actually drives the economy has one serious English treatment (Seabrook) and no proper business history, which remains a real gap.

Books 7Recommenders 4

Start here

  1. Banker to the PoorMuhammad Yunus, 1998
  2. Portfolios of the PoorDaryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford, Orlanda Ruthven, 2009
  3. The Economics of MicrofinanceBeatriz Armendáriz, Jonathan Morduch, 2005
Banker to the PoorBanker to the Poor
T2 Banker to the Poor
Muhammad Yunus · 1998
Open LibraryGoodreads

How $27 lent to 42 villagers grew into Grameen Bank and microcredit.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, The Barefoot Investor

The Economics of MicrofinanceThe Economics of Microfinance
T2 The Economics of Microfinance
Beatriz Armendáriz, Jonathan Morduch · 2005
Open LibraryGoodreads

The theory behind microfinance methods such as group lending, and their effects.

Recommended by: Brian Armstrong

Portfolios of the PoorPortfolios of the Poor
T2 Portfolios of the Poor
Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford, Orlanda Ruthven · 2009
Open LibraryGoodreads

Year-long financial diaries of poor households show how they manage money.

Recommended by: Mark Zuckerberg

Bangladesh: The Test Case of DevelopmentBangladesh: The Test Case of Development
T3 Bangladesh: The Test Case of Development
Just Faaland, J. R. Parkinson · 1976
Open LibraryGoodreads

The founding pessimist study; useful baseline for what was later beaten.

Due Diligence
T3 Due Diligence
David Roodman · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

Sceptical audit of what microfinance evidence actually supports.

The Song of the ShirtThe Song of the Shirt
T3 The Song of the Shirt
Jeremy Seabrook · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads

Dhaka's garment industry from Rana Plaza back through its supply chain.

Bangladesh: Politics, Economy and Civil SociBangladesh: Politics, Economy and Civil Society
T4 Bangladesh: Politics, Economy and Civil Society
David Lewis · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

The one readable overview of how the state, NGOs and business interlock.

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