Lyt når som helst, hvor som helst

Nyd den ubegrænsede adgang til tusindvis af spændende e- og lydbøger - helt gratis

  • Lyt og læs så meget du har lyst til
  • Opdag et kæmpe bibliotek fyldt med fortællinger
  • Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals
  • Opsig når som helst
Start tilbuddet
DK - Details page - Device banner - 894x1036

Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day

Sprog
Engelsk
Format
Kategori

Økonomi & Business

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, 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.

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. Instead, they employ financial tools, many linked to informal networks and family ties. They push money into savings for reserves, squeeze money out of creditors whenever possible, run sophisticated savings clubs, and use microfinancing wherever available. Their experiences reveal new methods to fight poverty and ways to envision the next generation of banks for the "bottom billion."

Indispensable for those in development studies, economics, and microfinance, Portfolios of the Poor will appeal to anyone interested in knowing more about poverty and what can be done about it.

© 2009 Princeton University Press (E-bog): 9781400829965

Release date

E-bog: 20. april 2009

Andre kan også lide...

  1. The Maverick Effect: The Inside Story of India's IT Revolution Harish Mehta
  2. The 3D Leader: Take your leadership to the next dimension Terence Mauri
  3. Pricing Lives: Guideposts for a Safer Society W. Kip Viscusi
  4. GPS for Success: Skills, Strategies, and Secrets of Superachievers Barry A. Franklin
  5. High-Frequency Financial Econometrics Yacine Aït-Sahalia
  6. Information Choice in Macroeconomics and Finance Laura L. Veldkamp
  7. Online Business Terms and Acronyms Karl Lillrud
  8. A Joosr Guide to... Good to Great by Jim Collins: Why Some Companies Make the Leap - and Others Don't Joosr
  9. The Innovation Tournament Handbook Christian Terwiesch
  10. Emerging Domestic Markets: How Financial Entrepreneurs Reach Underserved Communities in the United States Gregory Fairchild
  11. Superior: Creating a Superior Culture of Excellence Rusty Komori
  12. The Business of Race: How to Create and Sustain an Antiracist Workplace - And Why it’s Actually Good for Business Margaret H. Greenberg
  13. Transform Your Career: Secrets to Conquering the PMP Challenge: "Revamp your career journey! Engage with powerful audio lessons to ace the PMP exam effortlessly." Lysander Vexley
  14. WORKBOOK of The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects by Andrew Chen BOOK TIGERS
  15. Dreamland: America's Immigration Lottery in an Age of Restriction Carly Goodman
  16. Demand the Impossible: One Lawyer's Pursuit of Equal Justice for All Robert Tsai
  17. Code of Conduct: Tales of the Roller Coaster of Life Scott Freidheim
  18. Building a Global Bank: The Transformation of Banco Santander Mauro F. Guillén
  19. A Joosr Guide to... Business Adventures by John Brooks: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street Joosr
  20. AI and the Future of the Public Sector: The Creation of Public Sector 4.0 Tony Boobier
  21. Beyond Eden: Ethics, Faith, and the Future of Superintelligent AI Felipe Chavarro Polanía
  22. How to Use the Internet to Advertise, Promote, and Market Your Business or Website: With Little Or No Money REVISED 2ND EDITION Bruce Brown
  23. Metaverse Simplified: Simplified guide for understanding Future Economy - Metaverse, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, NFT, Gaming, Art, Digital Assets Gaurav Duggal
  24. Graduate Debt Free: Escaping the Student Loan Matrix David F. Shutler, JD, MBA
  25. Ultimate Microservices with Go Nir Shtein
  26. Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control Theory: A Concise Introduction Daniel Liberzon

Vælg dit abonnement

  • Over 600.000 titler

  • Download og nyd titler offline

  • Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals

  • Børnevenligt miljø (Kids Mode)

  • Det er nemt at opsige når som helst

Flex

For dig som vil prøve Mofibo.

89 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • 20 timer/måned

  • Gem op til 100 ubrugte timer

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Prøv gratis
Den mest populære

Premium

For dig som lytter og læser ofte.

129 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • 100 timer/måned

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Start tilbuddet

Unlimited

For dig som lytter og læser ubegrænset.

149 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • Ubegrænset adgang

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Start tilbuddet

Family

For dig som ønsker at dele historier med familien.

Fra 179 kr. /måned
  • 2-6 konti

  • 100 timer/måned pr. konto

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Kun 39 kr. pr. ekstra konto

  • Ingen binding

2 konti

179 kr. /måned
Prøv gratis