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

By D. Collins, J. Morduch, Stuart Rutherford, O. Ruthven. Ethics and International Affairs, 2009

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Behavioral Foundations of Microcredit: Experimental and Survey Evidence from Rural India (2012, unknown): “If you don’t do that, [it] is like you are letting your friends down” (Collins et al. 2009, p. 114). In keeping with this, Armendáriz and Morduch (2005) and Basu (2008) invoke the desire to overcome savings difficulties as a rationale for why popular informal group-based savings and borrowing instit”
Beyond Baseline and Follow-Up: The Case for More T in Experiments (2011, background): “As the recent work by Collins et al. (2009) makes abundantly clear, one of the key difficulties of living on $2 a day is that people don’t receive $2 every day, but rather a highly irregular stream of income.”
Why Don’t the Poor Save More? Evidence from Health Savings Experiments. (2013, unknown): “Collins et al. (2009) examine a wealth of other informal saving tools used by poor families in Bangladesh, India, and South Africa.”
Bank concentration, competition, and financial inclusion (2018, background): “For example, Collins et al. (2009) study the financial lives of poor households and find a common pattern of intensive use of saving instruments but relatively small average balances.”
Financial development and poverty reduction in developing countries: New evidence from banks and microfinance institutions (2016, background): “Several studies have found beneficial effects upon consumption or income (Khandker, 2005; Kondo et al., 2008; Berhane, 2009; Collins et al., 2009; Imai and Azam, 2011; Berhane and Gardebroek, 2011), housing conditions (Berhane, 2009; Berhane and Gardebroek, 2011), village-level wages and investment…”
Microfinance and economic development (2017, background): “The diaries are most closely associated with the work of Collins et al. (2009), which details the financial lives of low-income families in Bangladesh, India, and South Africa.”
A Theory of Rational Demand for Index Insurance (2016, background): “I·28 Daniel Clarke suitably addressed, could lead to a substantial increase in welfare for many of the world’s rural poor (Banerjee 2002, Collins et al. 2009, Karlan and Morduch 2009).”