MFP 096. Bob Christen: Introducing the book - Portfolios of the Poor: How the Worlds Poor Live on $2 a Day

Published: May 25, 2010, 10:23 p.m.

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Bob Christen, director of the Financial Services for the Poor initiative at Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, introduces the groundbreaking book, Portfolios of the Poor: How the World’s Poor Live on $2 a Day. The authors of the book recorded and analyzed the financial diaries of a group of households in Bangladesh, India and South Africa.

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