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Covid-19 and the Hrishipara Diarists – June 2020: Still Waiting

The story so far The first blog in this series was written just after a ‘corona lockdown’ was enforced in Bangladesh on 26th March 2020. It discussed the reaction to the shock of the 60 low-income households in central Bangladesh who volunteer as ‘diarists’ in our daily financial diary project. The second blog showed how bad things got during April, the […]

Hrishipara Daily Financial Diaries: Education and Occupations

To what extent are occupations shaped by the family’s educational record? In early 2018 we published a blog called Bangladesh and Education: doing well, could do better. It was based on late 2017 data from the Hrishipara Daily Financial Diaries project, which has been tracking the lives of 70 low-income households in central Bangladesh since May 2015. […]

Meet Ngoy Daniel: Our Respondent from Nakivale Refugee Settlement

Ngoy Daniel is originally from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) but due to the multiple challenges he faced in his country, he fled to Uganda, Nakivale Settlement in 2014. He is living in the settlement together with his wife and six children. In order to take care of his family in the settlement, he […]

Covid-19 and the Hrishipara Diarists: May 2020: Climbing for a Fall?

The story so far The first blog in this series was written just after an anti-corona lock-down was enforced in Bangladesh on 26th March 2020. We showed how the shock was dealt with by the 60 low-income households in central Bangladesh who volunteer as ‘diarists’ in our daily financial diary project. In the second blog, we saw just how bad things […]

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