Hrishipara Daily Financial Diaries
tracking the financial lives of low-income households in central Bangladesh
CURRENT STATUS MFI LOANS LIFE DAY-BY-DAY CORONA VIRUS FINANCIAL DIARIES ORIGINS OF THE PROJECT PUBLICATIONS LINKS
we have now collected well over a million unique transaction records
we have completed seven years of continuous daily data collection!
we collected the first day's data on 20th May 2015
we would like to thank our diarists, and all our outside supporters
We announce the start of a new page that tracks how selected Diarists spent their day, updated daily for a month
The Hrishipara Daily Diaries project tracks the daily money transactions of 60 low-income households in central Bangladesh on a daily basis over many years.
It started in May 2015 and is ongoing. Its objective is to understand in detail the economic and financial lives of low-income households. Its goal is to reveal insights that will enable policy makers and service providers (including financial service providers) to help low-income households improve their lives.
In the past we have received funding help from CGAP and from the UNCDF's SHIFT programme. We are are delighted to announce that from June 1st 2019 the in-country costs of the project are being covered by a generous grant from
L-IFT, Low-Income Financial Transformation
Thank you L-IFT!
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)
