MFP 098. Stuart Rutherford on Portfolios of the Poor. Part 2

Stuart Rutherford, co-author of "Portfolios of the Poor" and Graham Wright, Program Director, MicroSave, talk about the key lessons of the book in terms of poor people's financial behavior. 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.