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.
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.