The Shaping Inclusive Finance Transformations (SHIFT) programme in Bangladesh has been supporting the Hrishipara Daily Financial Diaries project which records, daily, all the transactions of a panel of low-income households in a semi-rural area of central Bangladesh.

The diaries project began in May 2015, and we now have four years of records. Those years have been a period of rapid growth, not least in Bangladesh, of the ‘digital economy’, by which we mean ‘the economic activity that results from billions of everyday online connections among people, businesses, devices, data, and processes’, to borrow Deloitte’s definition.

In this blog, we review the project’s publications to date to ponder the question, ‘what do the diaries tell us about how the lives of low-income households have been affected by, and are responding to, the opportunities and changes brought about by the digital economy?’

See our infographic below: