Comments on: Episode 18: Portfolios of the Poor http://developmentdrums.org/267 A podcast about the news in international development and the fight against global poverty. Fri, 24 Jun 2011 08:58:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: joe http://developmentdrums.org/267/comment-page-1#comment-264 joe Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:59:28 +0000 http://developmentdrums.org/?p=267#comment-264 New to the podcast, but was interested in the contents - even though I found it pretty academic and hard to follow at times. I guess it should come as no real surprise that those who survive on low incomes are pretty resilient and have survival strategies. The next question is then what it takes to lift people from this wealth bracket and the difference it would make to them. New to the podcast, but was interested in the contents – even though I found it pretty academic and hard to follow at times. I guess it should come as no real surprise that those who survive on low incomes are pretty resilient and have survival strategies. The next question is then what it takes to lift people from this wealth bracket and the difference it would make to them.

]]> By: Peter Burgess http://developmentdrums.org/267/comment-page-1#comment-258 Peter Burgess Sun, 06 Sep 2009 19:30:19 +0000 http://developmentdrums.org/?p=267#comment-258 Dear Colleagues There is another question worth asking ... not so much how do the BoP live on under $2 a day, but how people in "rich" countries are so poor on $100 a day? My answer to this question is that the metrics being used make almost no sense at all ... an accounting and academic disgrace! Peter Burgess Tr-Ac-Net Community Analytics! Dear Colleagues

There is another question worth asking … not so much how do the BoP live on under $2 a day, but how people in “rich” countries are so poor on $100 a day? My answer to this question is that the metrics being used make almost no sense at all … an accounting and academic disgrace!

Peter Burgess
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]]> By: Brian Barder http://developmentdrums.org/267/comment-page-1#comment-256 Brian Barder Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:39:01 +0000 http://developmentdrums.org/?p=267#comment-256 I really enjoyed listening (on the treadmill in the gym with the iPod) to this extraordinarily informative and instructive interview. It was refreshing to get so many insights into the way the poorest of the poor in Asia and Africa actually manage their precarious, exiguous, uneven and unpredictable finances: the facts and figures seemed so remote from the speculative pronouncements of some (no, of course not you) academic development gurus. A most valuable corrective to ill-informed guesswork. Many thanks to you, Daryl Collins and Jonathan Morduch (however did Murdoch get transmogrified into Morduch, by the way?) <b>Brian</b> <a href="http://www.barder.com/ephems/" rel="nofollow">http://www.barder.com/ephems/</a> I really enjoyed listening (on the treadmill in the gym with the iPod) to this extraordinarily informative and instructive interview. It was refreshing to get so many insights into the way the poorest of the poor in Asia and Africa actually manage their precarious, exiguous, uneven and unpredictable finances: the facts and figures seemed so remote from the speculative pronouncements of some (no, of course not you) academic development gurus. A most valuable corrective to ill-informed guesswork. Many thanks to you, Daryl Collins and Jonathan Morduch (however did Murdoch get transmogrified into Morduch, by the way?)
Brian
http://www.barder.com/ephems/

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