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-...

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!

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

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

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

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

The local health officer notes the high rate of Dengue infections, reflecting the national situation (and complains that local people make things worse by trying to treat Dengue with cheap over-the-counter medicines)

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...

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...

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.

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

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...