Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a DayNearly 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, more than a billion people around the world must answer these questions. Portfolios of the Poor is the first book to systematically explain how the poor find solutions to their everyday financial problems. |
Contents
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The Daily Grind | 28 |
Dealing with Risk | 65 |
Building Blocks Creating Usefully Large Sums | 95 |
The Price of Money | 132 |
Rethinking Microfinance The Grameen II Diaries | 154 |
Better Portfolios | 174 |
Appendix 1 The Story behind the Portfolios | 185 |
Appendix 2 A Selection of Portfolios | 211 |
Acknowledgments | 243 |
Notes | 247 |
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Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day Daryl Collins No preview available - 2009 |