Friday Links #38

1. Turns out Nigerian foreign minister knows the ‘visions’ of a president he hasn’t talked to in close to two months! (See this BBC Hardtalk excerpt). Hmm… maybe we really don’t need a president then.

2. Intelligent Life on online fashion shopping.

3. Haiti and the Catastrophic Role of the International Financial System by Saskia Sassen. HT @jranck

4. Haiti: Thoughts on Women

5. Chris Blattman calls for an anthropology dissertation on microfinance-as-norm