Jonathan J. Morduch
Professor of Public Policy and Economics

In the Press


04/04/2013
Beyond Business: Rethinking Microfinance [Commentary]
Foreign Policy
03/21/2012
How the Other Half Lives: Financial Planning on $2 a Day
The Atlantic
03/09/2012
Dollar benchmark: The rise of the $1-a-day statistic
BBC News
01/09/2012
McGraw-Hill Research Foundation White Paper Calls for New Approach to Creating Effective Financial Literacy Programs
MarketWatch
01/10/2011
Tracing Families' Escape From Poverty
MIT News
11/17/2010
Come What May (commentary)
Forbes India
11/15/2010
Gates Foundation Pledges $500 Million to Give Poor Bank Access
San Francisco Chronicle
11/12/2010
Beyond Micro Lending
Forbes India
11/12/2010
Beyond Micro Lending
Forbes India
11/08/2010
Is Microfinance the New Subprime (commentary)
Harvard Business Review
10/22/2010
The Rigidity of Microcredit
Forbes
10/22/2010
Microfinance Innovation and Impact Conference 2010, Day 1
Forbes
07/30/2010
Microfinance: For Community or for Gain?
Big Think
07/18/2010
Free Money
The Boston Globe
07/12/2010
Women's World Banking Brings Credit To The Third World
Forbes
07/05/2010
Microfinance Groups Think Big
Wall Street Journal
05/07/2010
NYU Economic Explains How World's Poor Live on $2/Day
Scranton Times
05/02/2010
Social Investment Will be Focus of Scranton University Lecture
Scranton Times
01/13/2010
Gates Foundation Seeks to Spur Savings By the Poor
The New York Times
12/18/2009
Portfolios of the Poor
Vox (podcast)
12/07/2009
Changing Micro Credit (audio)
Here and Now
11/24/2009
Microfinance's Elusive Quest: Finding an Accurate Measure of Social Impact
Knowledge@Wharton
09/30/2009
Jonathan Morduch on Microcredit
The Economist.com (video)
09/14/2009
Why the World's Poor Refuse Insurance
Time
08/25/2009
Froth at the bottom of the pyramid
The Economist
08/21/2009
What the World's Poorest Can Teach Us About Money Management (opinion)
Foreign Policy
07/13/2009
40% Live on $2 A Day or Less?
Fox Business (video)
06/24/2009
Books Briefly Noted: Portfolios of the Poor
The New Yorker
06/23/2009
Poor Aren't Lifeless Bricks
Live Mint
06/21/2009
Living On $2 A Day: An Interview With Economist Jonathan Morduch
Daily Kos
06/21/2009
Living on $2 a Day: An Interview with Economist Jonathan Morduch
Intrepid Liberal Journal
06/19/2009
Schools, Weddings and Funerals on $2 a Day (Book Review)
The Washington Post
06/04/2009
Microcredit loans 'used to buy food'
Financial Times
06/03/2009
Asa: Maoism to microfinance: a journey of hope
Financial Times
05/26/2009
Putting the Microsavings in Microfinance
New York Times
05/18/2009
Idea of the Day: The Poor Have Financial Discipline
The New York Times.com
05/14/2009
The Poor: Smooth Operators
The Economist
05/12/2009
Portfolio Management for the Poor (op-ed)
Forbes.com
05/11/2009
Portfolios of the Poor: Financial Diaries of the Bottom Billion
NextBillion.net
05/08/2009
Saving When You Earn $2 a Day
The Economist.com











Contact Details

jonathan.morduch@nyu.edu
(212) 998-7515
295 Lafayette Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10012
Office Hours: Wednesdays 5:00-6:00 PM
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Areas of Expertise

  • Economics
  • Evaluation
  • Finance
  • Governance
  • Inequality
  • International Development
  • Law & Regulation
  • Policy Analysis
  • Poverty
  • Social Entrepreneurship
  • Social Policy