Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day

by Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford, Orlanda Ruthven

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The authors report on the yearlong "financial diaries" of villagers and slum dwellers in Bangladesh, India, and South Africa--records that track penny by penny how specific households manage their money--From publisher description.

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Helped me to build an insight on a reality that I only knew because of stories from relatives.
A must-read for finance professionals and people living in Africa and the Indian subcontinent. The authors throw their well-illuminated research lights on people, whose lives oscillate between cash and credit. Read the complete review here https://wp.me/p6rxcY-nl

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Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day

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Economics, Nonfiction, Sociology, Business, General Nonfiction
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339.4Society, government, & cultureEconomicsMacroeconomics and related topicsFactors Impacting GDP
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