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

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Parker Shipton offers a range of perspectives on the process of lending & borrowing in Africa. His conclusions challenge the conventional wisdom of the past half century about the need for credit among African farmers.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shipton, Parker MacDonald
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, ©2010.
Colección:Yale agrarian studies.
Temas:
Economic assistance > Africa.
Poverty > Africa > Prevention.
Luo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people) > Finance.
Luo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people) > Economic conditions.
Economics > Sociological aspects.
Aide économique > Afrique.
Luo (Peuple du Kenya et de Tanzanie) > Finances.
Luo (Peuple du Kenya et de Tanzanie) > Conditions économiques.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > Microeconomics.
Economic assistance
Economics > Sociological aspects
Luo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people) > Economic conditions
Poverty > Prevention
Africa
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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