New Finance Development Magazine: Upsides

Manuel Bueno — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 07:17:26 -0500

Last week, while checking out some regular blogs, I bumped into a short note about a magazine called "Upsides" in the CGAP Blog.

Upsides is an FMO (the Netherlands Finance Development Company) initiative, supported by other likeminded financial institutions such as Standard Bank, Plantersbank, Triodos Bank and ShoreBank. As such, the core content of Upsides revolves around finance and development.

Every Upsides issue has, on average, three detailed articles that develop a particular aspect of development finance. These articles are peppered with several case studies that help add flesh to the bone and reflect stories from different perspectives. Additionally there is a section called 20:20 featuring interviews with important actors in the arena.

Initially, I thought that I would read the four already published issues and give an overview here, but soon it became apparent to me that the magazine is just too good to do it the disservice of a mediocre summary. Plus the contents are well thought out and they develop several important well-connected points. Clearly, the authors are experts and they have put much time into their articles.

Instead, I have chosen to give some mouthwatering tidbits of the fourth issue with the hope of stimulating readership from NextBillion visitors. There were three main topics: remittances, the brain drain in emerging economies and branchless banking.

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