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Jonathan Morduch is a professor of public policy and economics at New York University.
Known for: Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day
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Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day
This book presents a groundbreaking study of how low-income households in Bangladesh, India, and South Africa manage their financial lives. Drawing on detailed financial diaries collected over a year, the authors reveal the complex strategies the poor use to survive and improve their circumstances, challenging conventional assumptions about poverty and microfinance.
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Our approach revolved around a deceptively simple yet powerful idea: create financial diaries that record every inflow and outflow of cash in poor households. Beginning in Bangladesh and later extending to India and South Africa, we followed families and individuals over an entire year, visiting the...
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The Financial Lives of the Poor
The common image of the poor as living hand-to-mouth is both wrong and misleading. The diaries revealed that most poor households engage in numerous financial transactions every week. Even with limited income, their portfolios are surprisingly diverse: they save small sums, borrow from several sourc...
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About Jonathan Morduch
Jonathan Morduch is a professor of public policy and economics at New York University.
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