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A global financial diaries project to shed light into the hidden lives of small firms, through interviews with more than 1000 firms in 7 countries.
THE SENTINEL PROJECT
A global consortium of researchers
The pandemic is a major threat to microfinance institutions, their operations and business models. How are leading MFIs weighing their choices and making decisions? What changes are they making and how will that alter the future of microfinance?
US FINANCIAL DIARIES
Daryl Collins, Rachel Schneider, Jonathan Morduch & Tim Ogden
How do low- and moderate-income Americans make ends meet, day-to-day and week-to-week, over the course of a full year? Revealing hard-to-see aspects of the financial lives of households on the margin to provide new insight to improve financial policies, programs and products.
