Credit Between Cultures: Farmers, Financiers, and Misunderstanding in AfricaParker Shipton brings a variety of perspectives--cultural, economic, political, and religious-philosophical--and years of field experience to this fascinating study about people who borrow and lend in the interior of Africa. His conclusions challenge the conventional wisdom of the past half century (including perennial World Bank orthodoxy) about the need for credit among African farming people. |
Contents
An Integrated Approach | |
Nepotism as Loyalty | |
Borrowing Green | |
The Moral and the Hazard | |
Reversal | |
FIRMS | |
Individual | |
Banking Between Charity | |
Rethinking Credit Between | |
Notes | |
Index | |
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Credit Between Cultures: Farmers, Financiers, and Misunderstanding in Africa Parker MacDonald Shipton No preview available - 2010 |
Credit Between Cultures: Farmers, Financiers, and Misunderstanding in Africa Parker MacDonald Shipton No preview available - 2010 |
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