Low Income Lives - Family Food Shopping

The "Low-Income Lives" series provides an opportunity to learn how poor people manage their lives, based on solid data from ground-breaking field research.

This edition looks at how low-income people buy food, focusing on three households that consume $2 per day per person, or less, and fall below the Bangladesh government’s “Lower Poverty Line” and can be classed as “extreme poor”. The study uses data from the Hrishipara Daily Financial Diaries, a project which collects data from householders in central Bangladesh about how much money came into and went out of their hands each day, and for what purpose. The project has been running since mid-2015 and is building a uniquely rich and accurate understanding of their lives.