Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Saving and insuring: Towards a 'good life' and a 'good future' -- Research on informal saving and insurance associations in Ethiopia -- Informal saving and insurance associations in Ethiopia's diaspora and beyond -- Contributions -- Figures -- Bibliography -- Saving and being safe in Ethiopia -- Iddir funerary insurance as uncaptured civil society -- Introduction -- Institutions with clear parallels worldwide -- Urban origins in Addis Ababa -- Single or multiethnic origins? -- The expansion and transformation of iddirs in the 20th century -- The imperial period -- The Derg period -- The EPRDF period -- Recent evidence -- Growth in number, spatial diffusion, and density of iddirs -- The WIDE longitudinal evidence -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Informal savings and insurance associations -- Introduction -- Informal savings and insurance associations -- Iddir: indigenous life insurance -- Equb: indigenous saving institution -- Informal institutions: future‐making and dreams of migration -- Informal vis‐a-vis formal savings institutions -- Continuity and changing trends among iddirs and equbs -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Wijjo and kochoo -- Introduction -- Description of the study area -- Wijjo: Women's ROSCAs -- Kochoo: Men's ROSCAs -- The Socio‐economic significance of wijjo and kochoo -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- The activities, benefits, and challenges of Awada women's self‐help groups in empowering women in Sidama region, southern Ethiopia -- Introduction -- The nexus between empowerment and SHGs -- Awada women's SHG activities, benefits, and challenges -- Social benefits -- Case 1 -- Economic benefits -- Case 2 -- Political benefits -- Case 3 -- Challenges encountered -- Conclusion and recommendations -- Tables -- Figures -- Bibliography.

Saving and being safe in the Ethiopian diaspora -- 'Wealth in people' -- Introduction -- Equbs in Ethiopia, L.A., and Seattle -- Equbs in L.A. and Seattle -- 'Wealth in people' - The evaluation process of equb actors -- Equbs/ROSCAs working as forms of investment -- Making diasporic communities through equbs/ROSCAs: Little Ethiopia and other immigrant communities -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Solidarity until the end -- Introduction -- Ethiopians in southern California -- Bereavement as creator of social relationships -- The rise of Ethiopian insurance associations in the USA -- The power of solidarity -- The limits of solidarity -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Islands of hope -- Introduction -- Israel as the promised land -- The crux of the promised land -- Saving for the future - Ethiopian and Eritrean migrant workers in Israel -- Israel as workaround -- Precarious socio‐political situation and contradictory legal status -- Equb in Israel - time and space in which money "is eaten" -- Temporality of hope - "Equb takes care of you 365 days a year" -- Trust in hope - Hope in trust -- "Why should I trust the state?" -- "I don't trust anything institutional" -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- "Trust a man after you bury him" -- Introduction -- Some theoretical considerations -- Trust and mistrust -- Ethiopian Middle East migration trends -- Some features of equb associations in the Emirates -- The significance of ROSCAs for Ethiopians in the Emirates -- Elements of trust in saving institutions -- The overall breakdown of cultural norms -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Savings (equb) and insurance (iddir) associations of Eritreans in Germany -- Introduction -- Research objective and methodology -- Eritrean communities in the diaspora at a glance -- Research findings on equb and iddir associations in Germany.

Case 1: Mahiber Qudus Michael (Saint Michael) of Segheneiti -- Case 2: The Mahiber Mehazut (Association of Friends) -- Case 3: The equb family Tesfa Giorgis -- The administration of equb and iddir associations -- Internal regulations and official registration -- Members' contributions and payments to members -- The Covid‑19 pandemic and its effect on associations' activities -- Conclusion -- Figures -- Tables -- Bibliography -- Saving and being safe beyond Ethiopia -- Spatial manifestation of self‐governance groups -- Introduction -- Methodology and case studies -- Section I: Addis Ababa -- Geographic and substantive focus -- Co‑creating iddirs -- Co‑operating iddirs -- Co‑opting iddirs -- Section II: Nairobi -- Logic of organization -- The Co‑production framework -- Co‑operating community organizations -- Co‑opting community organizations -- Conclusion -- Figures -- Bibliography -- Caring for the future -- The new scramble for African customers and the quest for social security -- Research outline -- Namibia and the market for social insurance - What makes it so attractive to Namibian customers? -- Historical background -- The attractiveness of formal social insurance -- Saving for the future and last wills and testaments -- Analysis -- Conclusion: Caring for the future - Who cares? Whose future? -- Figures -- Bibliography -- Author's biographies.

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