Credit between cultures farmers, financiers, and misunderstanding in Africa /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven [Conn.] :
Yale University Press,
c2010.
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| Series: | Yale agrarian studies.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.