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

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Hoofdauteur: Shipton, Parker MacDonald
Coauteur: ebrary, Inc
Formaat: Elektronisch E-boek
Taal:Engels
Gepubliceerd in: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2010.
Reeks:Yale agrarian studies.
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Inhoudsopgave:
  • 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.