Credit between cultures farmers, financiers, and misunderstanding in Africa /

Credit between cultures farmers, financiers, and misunderstanding in Africa /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shipton, Parker MacDonald
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2010.
Series:Yale agrarian studies.
Subjects:
Economic assistance > Africa.
Poverty > Africa > Prevention.
Luo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people) > Finance.
Luo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people) > Economic conditions.
Economics > Sociological aspects.
Electronic books.
Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: a golden pendulum
  • Context for credit : a setting at the source of the Nile
  • Three faces of the loan : charity, usury-- and fantasy
  • Plans and dreams : an integrated approach on paper
  • Lenders and lineages : nepotism as loyalty
  • Untying a package deal : borrowing green revolution technology
  • Debts and dodges : the moral and the hazard in repayment
  • In a white elephant's shadow : reversal and repetition
  • Wildfire : tobacco contract farming
  • Self-help and the underground : individual incentive and the group guarantee
  • Self-help with help : banking between charity and usury
  • Crossing back : rethinking credit between cultures.

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