Finance bends; will it break?
Originally posted on the FSD Kenya Website, November 11, 2020 On average, families in the Kenya Financial Diaries started...
How are things now? Summary of September/October COVID diaries findings
Originally posted on the FSD Kenya Website, November 11, 2020 Between 7 September and 14 October, our team spoke...
Debts in distress: how ordinary people are finding the liquidity they need to survive COVID
Originally posted on the FSD Kenya Website, September 6, 2020 “Things are getting bad,” Vanessa told us. When we...
Back to an empty market
Originally posted on the FSD Kenya Website, June 10, 2020 Desperate for income, many Diaries respondents have gone back...
“Our love has grown more”
Originally posted on the FSD Kenya Website, April 21, 2020 Coronavirus disruptions are giving some Kenyan women a reprieve...
Corona Case Studies: Loss of Income, Loss of Pride
Originally posted on the FSD Kenya Website, April 6, 2020 Stephen and Jessica live in their rural home in...
iWorkers: Will digital technology reward ‘under-rewarded efforts’?
Santiago Levy is the former Minister of Social Development in Mexico and more recently IDB’s chief economist. In 2018,...
iWorkers: How digital changes the nature of informality in Africa
The defining characteristic of most work in Africa is its informality: according to the ILO, 85% is done in...
The iWorker Project – Country Diagnostic Report: Ghana
iWorkers are a new category of workers – people whose livelihoods are enabled by digital commerce platforms where they...
Digital Solutions Are Transforming Informal Workers into African iWorkers
Originally posted on the ICTworks website The defining characteristic of most work in Africa is its informality: according to...