Credit between cultures [electronic resource] : farmers, financiers, and misunderstanding in Africa / Parker Shipton.
By: Shipton, Parker MacDonald.
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BookSeries: Yale agrarian studies: Publisher: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2010Description: 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 aspectsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 332.1/753089965 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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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.
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