Jonathan Morduch
Development economist and professor
Jonathan Morduch is a development economist and New York University professor who studies poverty, microfinance and the financial lives of low-income families.
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American Born 1963 in the United States
About Jonathan Morduch
Jonathan Morduch teaches public policy and economics at the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University. He is a development economist, and his research on the effects of microfinance goes back to the early years of that movement. He has written about poverty and financial institutions in developing countries, and about the tension between social goals and financial goals in microfinance. He is also involved with the Financial Access Initiative, a research consortium of development economists that works to widen access to financial services for low-income people in developing countries. He co-wrote The Financial Diaries with Rachel Schneider, a book that follows the lives of American families. His book Portfolios of the Poor is among the titles summarized on BookBits.