tracking the financial lives of low-income households in central Bangladesh
CURRENT STATUS DIARISTS' DATA MFI LOANS LIFE DAY-BY-DAY CORONA VIRUS FINANCIAL DIARIES ORIGINS OF THE PROJECT PUBLICATIONS LINKS
The Diaries are now ten years old
We collected the first data from Diarists 01 and 02 on 20th May 2015
Our Data Collection Team
we collected the first day's data on 20th May 2015
we would like to thank our diarists, and all our outside supporters
Our pages:
Current Status: updates the total number of transactions tracked and provides other information
Diarists' Data: a new page started in late 2024 that will help researchers get the best out of this website
MFI loans: explores the many aspects of MFI lending in detail
Life day-by-day : a detailed account of how two diarists spend their time
Corona Virus: a blow-by-blow accout of how our Diarists fared during and after the epidemic
this page has a sub page on the fall in the number of MFI loans taken by our diarists
Financial Diaries: briefly describes the origins and growth of the Diaries methodology
Origins of the Project: describes why and how we started the HDDP set of diaries
Publications: lists and links to our published reports and blogs
Links: lists some organisations with which we have links
Recent news: forty-seven publications about the diaries have appeared so far, many of them blogs which can be found on sites like CGAP, MicroSave, Manchester University's Global Development Institute, UNU-WIDER, UNCDF and Gojo & Co. They can also be read on the publications page. The latest include a look at the cash reserves diarists hold at home, an examination of the income patterns of five low-income diarists; an article about an informal 'neighbourhood banker; a slide-show on 'Where does the money go?', and a blog in the CGAP series on 'Bangladesh after 50 years' (August 2021)
