Financial Inclusion Expert
Trained originally as an architect, Stuart Rutherford later became interested in how poor people manage their money, and how they might be helped to do it better
Covid-19 and low-income households in central Bangladesh
Income plummets in Bangladesh as a result of Covid-19 – Stuart Rutherford’s Hrishipara diaries reveal, in graphic detail, the daunting scale of the challenges facing the poor worldwide.
Apr 8, 2020
Apr 8, 2020
Ambition and debt
Part of our Low Income Lives series, this blog reveals how rickshaw driver Abul from Bangladesh managed to buy a better vehicle and how it affected the economy and welfare of his household.
Aug 27, 2019
Aug 27, 2019
Something to fall back on (Managing income volatility)
As part of the Hrishipara Daily Diaries Project, MSC tracked the income of a brick-breaker in Bangladesh to discover how he manages his household despite fluctuations in income that tosses his household in and out of extreme poverty.
Aug 26, 2019
Aug 26, 2019
Micro-entrepreneurs and occupational hazards: Why do poor people settle for low-return employment?
In this blog, we highlight why the poor wish to engage in unskilled labor and petty trade by studying the records of respondents from low-income households in a “financial diary” research project in central Bangladesh.
Aug 26, 2019
How the poor borrow
This is the third in a series of short articles about the findings of a daily ‘financial diary’ research project. A description of the project can be found on its website.
Sep 29, 2018
Sep 29, 2018
Low Income Lives – Education
In the first edition of MicroSave’s ‘Low-Income Lives’, Stuart Rutherford looks at education, using data from the Hrishipara Daily Financial Diaries project which records the flow of money from households in Bangladesh.
Feb 23, 2018
Feb 23, 2018
Low Income Lives – Family Food Shopping
In this edition of MicroSave’s ‘Low Income Lives’ series, Stuart Rutherford uses data from the Hrishipara Daily Financial Diaries to study how poor people in Bangladesh buy food.
Feb 23, 2018
Delinquency Management Lessons from Bangladesh
In this video Stuart Rutherford – Founder of SafeSave, a microfinance institution in Bangladesh talks about the competition in Bangladesh, delinquency management and the key challenges in addressing it. Attributing the emergence of various MFIs as one of the reasons for defaults, Stuart discusses the clients’ behaviour towards payment patterns.
Oct 18, 2010
Oct 18, 2010