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[Title] Portfolios of the Poor: How the World’s Poor Live on $2 a Day [Author] Daryl Collins [Rating] ★★★ [Year] 2009 [Read] 2012/12/10 [Review] 
The first 2 or 3 chapters are very interesting and enlightening on the risk borne by the poor and how they do their best to cope; however, the rest is generally repetitive and shows the same data in somewhat different ways and countries, and become boring quickly - making this one of the padded books which would’ve been a better read as a longform article or essay. (One exception is the discussion of APRs and how the loans actually are done which renders them far less usurious.) Ironically, the appendices were more interesting than many of the narratives in the later chapters.
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