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Tag: Low Income Living

Stuart Rutherford

Ambition and debt

Part of our Low Income Lives series, this blog reveals how rickshaw driver Abul from...
Aug 27, 2019

Stuart Rutherford

Something to fall back on (Managing income volatility)

As part of the Hrishipara Daily Diaries Project, MSC tracked the income of a brick-breaker...
Aug 26, 2019

Dan Brockington

The strange neglect of diversity within microfinance institutions

This blog is Dan Brockington’s highlights on how the branch performance in BRAC-Tanzania varies considerably...
Aug 26, 2019

Stuart Rutherford and Rahul Chatterjee

Micro-entrepreneurs and occupational hazards: Why do poor people settle for...

In this blog, we highlight why the poor wish to engage in unskilled labor and...
Aug 26, 2019

Guy Stuart

Long Hours for Low Pay in the ‘Formal’ Economy: the...

From July 2016 to August 2017 Microfinance Opportunities (MFO) conducted the Garment Worker Diaries project in three...
Apr 2, 2018

Abhishek Anand and Abhay Pareek

Small Finance Banks – Is there an Opportunity for MFIs/NBFCs?

First in the series of publications on Small Finance Banks, this note explores the possibilities...
Feb 10, 2015
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