Portfolios of the Poor Collins Daryl
Portfolios of the Poor Collins Daryl Nearly forty percent of humanity lives on an average of two dollars a day or less. How would you put food on the table, afford a home, and educate your children?…
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Portfolios of the Poor Collins Daryl
Nearly forty percent of humanity lives on an average of two dollars a day or less. How would you put food on the table, afford a home, and educate your children? If you've never had to survive on an income so small, it is hard to imagine.
Every day, more than a billion people around the world must answer these questions. How would you handle emergencies and old age? Portfolios of the Poor is the first book to systematically explain how the poor find solutions to their everyday financial problems.The authors conducted year-long interviews with impoverished villagers and slum dwellers in Bangladesh, India, and South Africa--records that track penny by penny how specific households manage their money.
The stories of these families are often surprising and inspiring. Most poor households do not live hand to mouth, spending what they earn in a desperate bid to keep afloat.