Shipton, Parker MacDonald.
Credit between cultures farmers, financiers, and misunderstanding in Africa / [electronic resource] : Parker Shipton. - New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2010. - xxvii, 335 p., [12] p. of plates : ill., map. - Yale agrarian studies series . - Yale agrarian studies. .
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.
Economic assistance--Africa.
Poverty--Prevention.--Africa
Luo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people)--Finance.
Luo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people)--Economic conditions.
Economics--Sociological aspects.
Electronic books.
HC59.8 / .S55 2010eb
332.1/753089965
Credit between cultures farmers, financiers, and misunderstanding in Africa / [electronic resource] : Parker Shipton. - New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2010. - xxvii, 335 p., [12] p. of plates : ill., map. - Yale agrarian studies series . - Yale agrarian studies. .
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.
Economic assistance--Africa.
Poverty--Prevention.--Africa
Luo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people)--Finance.
Luo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people)--Economic conditions.
Economics--Sociological aspects.
Electronic books.
HC59.8 / .S55 2010eb
332.1/753089965