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Small Firm Diaries is a global research initiative providing insight into the financial lives of small firms.
Small firms
are an essential source of livelihood for many—they provide jobs, goods, and services to billions of people working hard to make ends meet, in the US and around the world.
ABOUT
Understanding small firms is key to designing policies, financial services, and tools that help these businesses—and their communities—thrive.
The Financial Access Initiative at NYU and our partners are pioneering research into the realities for small firms around the world.
Financial Diaries
While most research studies produce static snapshots of a single point in time, financial diaries create dynamic and nuanced portraits using a combination of methods.
APPROACH
We aim to understand small firms by listening closely to how firm owners and workers make choices, on their own terms.
EXPERTISE
The Financial Access Initiative (FAI) is a research center based at the Wagner Graduate School of Public Administration at New York University focused on economic growth, inequality, and poverty and their connection to finance. With partners, FAI produced Portfolios of the Poor and The Financial Diaries, studies that have reshaped understandings of poverty and finance, illuminating volatility as a central issue.
FAI works in collaboration with teams of local partners, data collection experts, and field-leading researchers.
FUNDING PARTNERS
USA
GLOBAL
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