Stuart Rutherford
@stuarter.bsky.social
Mostly I'll be posting news on the Hrishipara (Bangladesh) Daily Financial Diaries. Interested in 'financial inclusion' and how it relates to the real lives of people living on very low incomes.
A cold December had the Hrishipara Diarists divided over whether it was worse than November. See more at www.hrishiparadiaries.com/home/corona-... #financialinclusion
Hrishipara Daily Diaries - Corona virus
On this page we report events as the corona virus epidemic is experienced by our 60 diarist households.
The most recent events are shown first, so you will have scroll down deeply to find the earlies...
www.hrishiparadiaries.com
January 5, 2026 at 11:12 PM
A cold December had the Hrishipara Diarists divided over whether it was worse than November. See more at www.hrishiparadiaries.com/home/corona-... #financialinclusion
More Hrishipara Diarists thought November 2025 was better than October, but by a small margin. Health was a major factor and you can see more about that at www.hrishiparadiaries.com/home/corona-...
December 1, 2025 at 4:50 AM
More Hrishipara Diarists thought November 2025 was better than October, but by a small margin. Health was a major factor and you can see more about that at www.hrishiparadiaries.com/home/corona-...
Durga Puja, the favourite festival of Bengali Hindus, fell in October, and was enjoyed. That made the difference for an otherwise lacklustre month for the Hrishipara Diarists. More at www.hrishiparadiaries.com/home/corona-...
November 2, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Durga Puja, the favourite festival of Bengali Hindus, fell in October, and was enjoyed. That made the difference for an otherwise lacklustre month for the Hrishipara Diarists. More at www.hrishiparadiaries.com/home/corona-...
September saw Durga Puja, Bengali Hindus' main festival. The Hindus among the Hrishipara Diarists enjoyed it as the chart shows. Income and health featured much less strongly than they usually do. See more at www.hrishiparadailydiaries.com/home/corona-virus
October 1, 2025 at 4:42 AM
September saw Durga Puja, Bengali Hindus' main festival. The Hindus among the Hrishipara Diarists enjoyed it as the chart shows. Income and health featured much less strongly than they usually do. See more at www.hrishiparadailydiaries.com/home/corona-virus
The Hrishipara Diarists found July a hard month, and now we see they found August little better. More at www.hrishiparadiaries.com/home/corona-...
Hrishipara Daily Diaries - Corona virus
On this page we report events as the corona virus epidemic is experienced by our 60 diarist households.
The most recent events are shown first, so you will have scroll down deeply to find the earlies...
www.hrishiparadiaries.com
September 2, 2025 at 7:07 AM
The Hrishipara Diarists found July a hard month, and now we see they found August little better. More at www.hrishiparadiaries.com/home/corona-...
The Hrishipara Diarists reported their gloomiest month-on-month assessment (of July versus June) since the political disturbances of a year ago. It was aggravated by many reports of ill health. More at www.hrishiparadiaries.com/home/corona-...
August 4, 2025 at 1:00 AM
The Hrishipara Diarists reported their gloomiest month-on-month assessment (of July versus June) since the political disturbances of a year ago. It was aggravated by many reports of ill health. More at www.hrishiparadiaries.com/home/corona-...
For our Hrishipara Diarists, May was not a good month.
By the way, our site has a new handle: we are now at www.hrishiparadiaries.com Please visit!
By the way, our site has a new handle: we are now at www.hrishiparadiaries.com Please visit!
June 1, 2025 at 6:28 AM
For our Hrishipara Diarists, May was not a good month.
By the way, our site has a new handle: we are now at www.hrishiparadiaries.com Please visit!
By the way, our site has a new handle: we are now at www.hrishiparadiaries.com Please visit!
Ten years of uninterrupted daily collection of every money transaction made by 60 low-income households. See their stories and their data at sites.google.com/site/hriship...
May 20, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Ten years of uninterrupted daily collection of every money transaction made by 60 low-income households. See their stories and their data at sites.google.com/site/hriship...
Our Hrishipara Diarists enjoyed either or both the Eid festival and the Bengali New Year during April, helping them feel good about the month compared to the previous one. More at sites.google.com/site/hriship... #financialinclusion #poverty
Hrishipara Daily Diaries - Corona virus
On this page we report events as the corona virus epidemic is experienced by our 60 diarist households.
The most recent events are shown first, so you will have scroll down deeply to find the earlies...
sites.google.com
May 1, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Our Hrishipara Diarists enjoyed either or both the Eid festival and the Bengali New Year during April, helping them feel good about the month compared to the previous one. More at sites.google.com/site/hriship... #financialinclusion #poverty
The Hrishipara Diarists found March much better than February. For one thing, Ramadan fell in that time, and several people were pleased to be able to fast properly. Income also improved. More at sites.google.com/site/hriship...
Hrishipara Daily Diaries - Corona virus
On this page we report events as the corona virus epidemic is experienced by our 60 diarist households.
The most recent events are shown first, so you will have scroll down deeply to find the earlies...
sites.google.com
March 31, 2025 at 1:47 AM
The Hrishipara Diarists found March much better than February. For one thing, Ramadan fell in that time, and several people were pleased to be able to fast properly. Income also improved. More at sites.google.com/site/hriship...
There were mixed opinions in Hrishipara among our Diarists about whether February has been better than, worse than, or the same as January. See more at sites.google.com/site/hriship... #financialinclusion
Hrishipara Daily Diaries - Corona virus
On this page we report events as the corona virus epidemic is experienced by our 60 diarist households.
The most recent events are shown first, so you will have scroll down deeply to find the earlies...
sites.google.com
February 28, 2025 at 6:10 AM
There were mixed opinions in Hrishipara among our Diarists about whether February has been better than, worse than, or the same as January. See more at sites.google.com/site/hriship... #financialinclusion
The Hrishipara Diarists were a bit gloomy this month. Health remains a problem, more so than income declines. See more at sites.google.com/site/hriship...
February 1, 2025 at 2:59 AM
The Hrishipara Diarists were a bit gloomy this month. Health remains a problem, more so than income declines. See more at sites.google.com/site/hriship...
Do you know how to get the most out of an MFI? Our Diarist 20 figured it out for herself. See more at sites.google.com/site/hriship... #financialinclusion
January 10, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Do you know how to get the most out of an MFI? Our Diarist 20 figured it out for herself. See more at sites.google.com/site/hriship... #financialinclusion
Why is milk second only to meat as a stock purchase for a Bangladeshi village restaurant? You can find out at sites.google.com/site/hriship...
January 4, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Why is milk second only to meat as a stock purchase for a Bangladeshi village restaurant? You can find out at sites.google.com/site/hriship...
The Hrishipara Diarists have recovered, somewhat, from the Dengue outbreak reported last month, with a quarter of all Diarists reporting improving health. It was not a good month, though, for income. See more at sites.google.com/site/hriship... #financialinclusion #covid19 #poverty
Hrishipara Daily Diaries - Corona virus
On this page we report events as the corona virus epidemic is experienced by our 60 diarist households.
The most recent events are shown first, so you will have scroll down deeply to find the earlies...
sites.google.com
January 1, 2025 at 4:42 AM
The Hrishipara Diarists have recovered, somewhat, from the Dengue outbreak reported last month, with a quarter of all Diarists reporting improving health. It was not a good month, though, for income. See more at sites.google.com/site/hriship... #financialinclusion #covid19 #poverty
Reposted by Stuart Rutherford
Great to see this study out!
Results from a guaranteed income program for low-income households in Compton, California, from Sidhya Balakrishnan, Sewin Chan, Sara Constantino, Johannes Haushofer, and Jonathan Morduch https://www.nber.org/papers/w33209
December 9, 2024 at 11:27 PM
Great to see this study out!
The Hrishipara Diarists reported an unusually high incidence of illness - even of death among family members - in their latest 'month on month' survey. We are looking at whether this is a peculiar or a local or even national trend. See more at sites.google.com/site/hriship...
December 1, 2024 at 7:24 AM
The Hrishipara Diarists reported an unusually high incidence of illness - even of death among family members - in their latest 'month on month' survey. We are looking at whether this is a peculiar or a local or even national trend. See more at sites.google.com/site/hriship...
Interested in how people spend their time? Two of our Hrishipara Diarists gave us a blow-by-blow account of how they spent each day for a month. Here's the opening of Day 1 for 'Ani':
More at sites.google.com/site/hriship...
More at sites.google.com/site/hriship...
November 24, 2024 at 5:33 AM
Interested in how people spend their time? Two of our Hrishipara Diarists gave us a blow-by-blow account of how they spent each day for a month. Here's the opening of Day 1 for 'Ani':
More at sites.google.com/site/hriship...
More at sites.google.com/site/hriship...
For A A Milne fans.
I put this up on Twitter during the first Trumpocracy. I never dreamed it might still be relevant a decade later.
I put this up on Twitter during the first Trumpocracy. I never dreamed it might still be relevant a decade later.
November 24, 2024 at 4:33 AM
For A A Milne fans.
I put this up on Twitter during the first Trumpocracy. I never dreamed it might still be relevant a decade later.
I put this up on Twitter during the first Trumpocracy. I never dreamed it might still be relevant a decade later.
If anyone has doubts about the ingenuity of indigenous informal financial schemes, take a quick look at what this illiterate labourer has been up to:
sites.google.com/site/hriship...
#informalfinance #poverty #microfinance
sites.google.com/site/hriship...
#informalfinance #poverty #microfinance
Hrishipara Daily Diaries - Diarist 10
Here we have another brickbreaker, this time a man. He has other sources of income: he is a faith-healer, he raises cows for the Eid sacrifice, sells milk, sometimes does day-labour, and sometimes tak...
sites.google.com
November 18, 2024 at 1:26 AM
If anyone has doubts about the ingenuity of indigenous informal financial schemes, take a quick look at what this illiterate labourer has been up to:
sites.google.com/site/hriship...
#informalfinance #poverty #microfinance
sites.google.com/site/hriship...
#informalfinance #poverty #microfinance
For new BlueSky contacts: meet the Hrishipara Diarists, 60 poor and very poor people in central Bangladesh who have been supplying daily data about all their money inflows and outflows for almost 10 years, and continuing. We analyze and comment on the data at sites.google.com/site/hriship...
Hrishipara Daily Diaries
we have now collected more than 1.5 million unique transaction records and completed more than nine years of continuous daily data collection
we collected the first day's data on 20th May 2015 we woul...
sites.google.com
November 17, 2024 at 3:51 AM
For new BlueSky contacts: meet the Hrishipara Diarists, 60 poor and very poor people in central Bangladesh who have been supplying daily data about all their money inflows and outflows for almost 10 years, and continuing. We analyze and comment on the data at sites.google.com/site/hriship...
From now on I'm using this channel to post news about the HRISHIPARA DIARISTS and other takes on understanding how poor people manage their money. sites.google.com/site/hriship...
November 16, 2024 at 4:19 AM
From now on I'm using this channel to post news about the HRISHIPARA DIARISTS and other takes on understanding how poor people manage their money. sites.google.com/site/hriship...