Tag: Financial diaries

In this video Yaw Nyarko, Professor of Economics at New York University and Director of NYU Africa House talks about the particulars of the research for ‘Portfolios of the Poor’ and how the book will influence the development of new research trends. Yaw notes that the book treats poor as human beings who have same […]

In this video Jonathan Morduch, co-author of “Portfolios of the Poor” and Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, and Managing Director of the Financial Access Initiative shares his opinion on what the book tells us about reimagining microfinance. He notes the importance of financial diary in […]

“In this video Jonathan Morduch, co-author of “Portfolios of the Poor” and Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, and Managing Director of the Financial Access Initiative tells one of the most important information revealed by the book is the they way how people use loans. The […]

This Grameen II note covers the methodology used in collecting ‘financial diary’ information from clients and provides the results of the study by closely focusing on clients and funds.

This note attempts to use data from ‘financial diaries’ element of Grameen II study to examine the growth, volatility and multiplicity of MFI membership among a small number of villagers.