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When poor households spend big

When poor households spend big

By Stuart Rutherford, Honorary Research Fellow at Global Development Institute In an earlier article in this series about the findings of a daily ‘financial diary’ research project in Bangladesh, we looked at the spending patterns of households (“What do poor...
What the poor spend on health care

What the poor spend on health care

By Stuart Rutherford, Honorary Research Fellow at The Global Development Institute This is the fourth in a series of short articles about the findings of a daily ‘financial diary’ research project in Bangladesh. In this article, we look at the spending on health care...

How the poor borrow

By Stuart Rutherford, Honorary Research Fellow at The Global Development Institute Read the first in the series Read the second in the series This is the third in a series of short articles about the findings of a daily ‘financial diary’ research project. A...