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Credit between cultures

by Shipton, Parker MacDonald.
Additional authors: ebrary, Inc.
Series: Yale agrarian studies series Published by : Yale University Press, (New Haven [Conn.] :) Physical details: xxvii, 335 p., [12] p. of plates : ill., map.
Subject(s): Economic assistance -- Africa. | Poverty -- Africa -- Prevention. | Luo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people) -- Finance. | Luo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people) -- Economic conditions. | Economics -- Sociological aspects. | Electronic books.
Year: 2010
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-320) 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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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