Credit Between Cultures: Farmers, Financiers, and Misunderstanding in Africa

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Yale University Press, Jun 22, 2010 - Business & Economics - 352 pages
Parker 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

Preface
Acknowledgments
A Setting at the Source of
Charity Usury
An Integrated Approach
Nepotism as Loyalty
Borrowing Green
The Moral and the Hazard
Reversal
FIRMS
Individual
Banking Between Charity
Rethinking Credit Between
Notes
Index
Copyright

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Parker Shipton is associate professor of anthropology and research fellow in African studies at Boston University.

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