Portfolios of the Poor - How the World's Poor live on $2 a day

Zusatztext "A terrific book." ---Diane Coyle, Enlightened Economist Informationen zum Autor Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford & Orlanda Ruthven Klappentext "A must-read book for social entrepreneurs combating global poverty. . . . Skip the latest road-to-riches screed about serving the bottom of the pyramid and throw out your white papers from the World Bank. . . . Portfolios of the Poor is your new bible." --Jonathan C. Lewis, I on Poverty "Too often, conversations about the needs of the world's poor are based on assumptions and clichés. This important, carefully researched, and compelling book presents the facts about the poor and their relationship to finance." --Tim Harford, author of The Undercover Economist and The Logic of Life "This is an important, boots-on-the-ground look at how microfinance functions in the developing world. The descriptions of how poor households manage their limited resources are exciting, raw, and novel, and I found myself unable to put the book down." --Edward Miguel, University of California, Berkeley and coauthor of Economic Gangsters Zusammenfassung Explains how the poor find solutions to their everyday financial problems by conducting year-long interviews with impoverished villagers and slum dwellers in Bangladesh, India, and South Africa - records that track penny by penny how specific households manage their money. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Tables vii List of Figures ix Chapter One: The Portfolios of the Poor 1 Chapter Two: The Daily Grind 28 Chapter Three: Dealing with Risk 65 Chapter Four: Building Blocks: Creating Usefully Large Sums 95 Chapter Five: The Price of Money 132 Chapter Six: Rethinking Microfinance: The Grameen II Diaries 154 Chapter Seven: Better Portfolios 174 Appendix 1: The Story behind the Portfolios 185 Appendix 2: A Selection of Portfolios 211 Acknowledgments 243 Notes 247 Bibliography 265 Index 273 ...

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• Authors: Daryl Collins, Daryl Morduch Collins, Collins Daryl, Jonathan Morduch, Morduch Jonathan, Stuart Rutherford, Rutherford Stuart, Orlanda Ruthven, Ruthven Orlanda
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2011
• EAN: 9780691148199
• ISBN: 978-0-691-14819-9
• No. of pages: 312
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 235 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Princeton University Press
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, Poverty & unemployment, Welfare economics, Economic systems and structures, Economic systems & structures, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies, Poverty and precarity