Credit between cultures : farmers, financiers, and misunderstanding in Africa
Parker Shipton
| Year of publication: |
2010
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| Authors: | Shipton, Parker |
| Publisher: |
New Haven [u.a.] : Yale University Press |
| Subject: | Mikrofinanzierung | Microfinance | Anthropologie | Anthropology | Kleinbauern | Smallholders | Entwicklungsfinanzierung | Development finance | Entwicklungshilfe | Development aid | Kenia | Kenya | Afrika | Africa | Kenia / West | Luo | Kreditwesen | Wirtschaftsentwicklung | Geschichte |
| Description of contents: | Table of Contents [gbv.de] |
| Extent: | XXVII, 335 S. Ill. |
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| Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index 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. 1008 |
| ISBN: | 978-0-300-11603-8 ; 978-0-300-18128-9 |
| Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
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