Covid-19 and the Hrishipara Diarists: May 2020: climbing for a fall?
The story so far The first blog in this series was written just after an anti-corona lockdown was enforced in Bangladesh on 26th March 2020. We showed how the shock was dealt with by the 60 low-income households in central Bangladesh who volunteer as ‘diarists’ in our...
Who will survive the coronavirus in Indonesia?
Gindo Tampubolon, Lecturer in Poverty, Global Development Institute The pandemic of novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, has infected unwitting hosts all around the world. Some estimate suggests up to three in four of a population can be infected with about 4% of those...
Covid-19 and low-income households in central Bangladesh
How the approach of Covid-19 has affected low-income households in central Bangladesh. Liaqat (not his real name) is a newspaper vendor and a volunteer ‘diarist’ in the Hrishipara Daily Financial Diaries project. We have been tracking all his money transactions on a...