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Autore |
Shipton Parker MacDonald |
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Titolo |
Credit between cultures : farmers, financiers, and misunderstanding in Africa / / Parker Shipton |
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New Haven [Conn.], : Yale University Press, c2010 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (1 online resource (xxvii, 335 p., [12] p. of plates) ) : ill., map |
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Collana |
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Yale agrarian studies series |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Economic assistance - Africa |
Poverty - Africa - Prevention |
Luo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people) - Finance |
Luo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people) - Economic conditions |
Economics - Sociological aspects |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-320) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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Parker Shipton brings a variety of perspectives-cultural, economic, political, and religious-philosophical-and years of field experience to this fascinating study about people who borrow and lend in the interior of Africa. His conclusions challenge the conventional wisdom of the past half century (including perennial World Bank orthodoxy) about the need for credit among African farming people. |
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