TY - BOOK AU - Collins,Daryl TI - Portfolios of the poor: how the world's poor live on $2 a day SN - 9780691141480 (acid-free paper) AV - HC79.P6 P67 2009 U1 - 339.4/6 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Princeton PB - Princeton University Press KW - Poor KW - Microfinance KW - Home economics KW - Accounting KW - Microkrediet KW - gtt KW - Grameen Bank KW - Armoede N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-272) and index; The portfolios of the poor -- The daily grind -- Dealing with risk -- Building blocks : creating usefully large sums -- The price of money -- Rethinking microfinance : the Grameen II diaries -- Better portfolios N2 - The authors report on the yearlong "financial diaries" of villagers and slum dwellers in Bangladesh, India, and South Africa--records that track penny by penny how specific households manage their money. --from publisher description ER -