Portfolios of the Poor : : How the World's Poor Live on / Stuart Rutherford, Daryl Collins, Orlanda Ruthven, Jonathan Morduch.

Nearly forty percent of humanity lives on an average of two dollars a day or less. If you've never had to survive on an income so small, it is hard to imagine. How would you put food on the table, afford a home, and educate your children? How would you handle emergencies and old age? Every day,...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]
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Year of Publication:2009
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.) :; 9 line illus. 36 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Tables
  • Figures
  • Chapter One: The Portfolios of the Poor
  • Chapter Two: The Daily Grind
  • Chapter Three: Dealing with Risk
  • Chapter Four: Building Blocks: Creating Usefully Large Sums
  • Chapter Five: The Price of Money
  • Chapter Six: Rethinking Microfinance: The Grameen II Diaries
  • Chapter Seven: Better Portfolios
  • Appendix 1: The Story behind the Portfolios
  • Appendix 2: A Selection of Portfolios
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index