This pioneering book explores the meaning of the term “Black social economy,” a self-help sector that remains autonomous from the state and business sectors. With the Western Hemisphere’s ignoble history of enslavement and violence towards African peoples, and the strong anti-black racism...

The 2006 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Mohammed Yunus and Grameen Bank confirmed to the industry's advocates that microfinance was a tool to help excluded groups access financing. In my political ethnographic study of 491 people in three countries I show that politics operate throughout the...

Bad governance and corrupt politics have left millions of people disenfranchised. In spite of an oppressive and undemocratic state, poor Haitians have created their own civil society groups and caisses populaires (credit union) movements – a testimony to the democratic spirit of the uneducated...

Purpose – Bad governance and corrupt politics have left millions of people disenfranchised. In spite of an oppressive and undemocratic state, poor Haitians have created their own informal groups, cooperatives and caisses populaires (credit union) movements – a testimony to the democratic...

Purpose – Bad governance and corrupt politics have left millions of people disenfranchised. In spite of an oppressive and undemocratic state, poor Haitians have created their own informal groups, cooperatives and caisses populaires (credit union) movements – a testimony to the democratic...