Credit between cultures farmers, financiers, and misunderstanding in Africa - Shipton, Parker MacDonald; ProQuest (Firm) (New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, 2010)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-320) and index.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Keywords: Economic assistance -- Africa; Poverty -- Africa -- Prevention; Luo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people) -- Finance; Luo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people) -- Economic conditions; Economics -- Sociological aspects; Electronic books