MFP 097. Stuart Rutherford on Portfolios of the Poor. Part 1

Microfinance Podcast

Stuart Rutherford, co-author of “Portfolios of the Poor”, talks about the inspiration for the research on financial diaries that was the foundation of the book. Stuart is the founder of SafeSave Bangladesh, an organization that provides reliable basic banking services, profitably, to poor men, women, and children in Dhaka. He became interested in how poor people manage their lives and their money as a result of working in developing countries as an architect and then for NGOs. From this perspective he became involved in microfinance as a practitioner (in Bangladesh), teacher, consultant, and writer. He is the author of The Poor and Their Money (Oxford University Press, 2000) and is an Honorary Senior Fellow at the Brooks World Poverty Institute at the University of Manchester, UK. He lives in Japan.