03362nam 2200697 a 450 991080825330332120240418005650.00-300-16292-810.12987/9780300162929(CKB)2550000000105032(StDuBDS)BDZ0022168160(SSID)ssj0000704060(PQKBManifestationID)11432189(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000704060(PQKBWorkID)10704666(PQKB)11465534(StDuBDS)EDZ0000157722(MiAaPQ)EBC3420986(DE-B1597)486004(OCoLC)1059279146(DE-B1597)9780300162929(Au-PeEL)EBL3420986(CaPaEBR)ebr10579385(OCoLC)801194715(EXLCZ)99255000000010503220100108d2010 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrCredit between cultures farmers, financiers, and misunderstanding in Africa /Parker Shipton1st ed.New Haven [Conn.] Yale University Pressc20101 online resource (1 online resource (xxvii, 335 p., [12] p. of plates) ) ill., mapYale agrarian studies seriesBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-300-11603-9 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.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.Yale agrarian studies.Economic assistanceAfricaPovertyAfricaPreventionLuo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people)FinanceLuo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people)Economic conditionsEconomicsSociological aspectsEconomic assistancePovertyPrevention.Luo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people)Finance.Luo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people)Economic conditions.EconomicsSociological aspects.332.1/753089965Shipton Parker MacDonald1650688MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910808253303321Credit between cultures4039919UNINA