Tag: Low Income Living
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
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
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 and seemed to reflect the influence of strong or weak area managers. He notes that this diversity of performance within microfinance organizations matters—it has been neglected and this could cause problems later.
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
Fintech Study to Model a Financial Inclusion Lab
The current landscape suggests a growing influence of fintechs in India. However, growth and investments have primarily confined in the payments and credit domains, and in a few metro cities.
Aug 11, 2018
Anil Gupta, Charvi Gandotra, Meenal Malik, Mohit Saini and Shweta Menon
Long Hours for Low Pay in the ‘Formal’ Economy: the Lives of Bangladesh’s Garment Workers
From July 2016 to August 2017 Microfinance Opportunities (MFO) conducted the Garment Worker Diaries project in three countries—Bangladesh, Cambodia, and India. This blog highlights what MFO found through its research.
Apr 2, 2018