Credit between cultures : farmers, financiers, and misunderstanding in Africa / Parker Shipton.
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TextSeries: Yale agrarian studiesPublication details: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2010.Description: xxvii, 335 p., [12] p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cmISBN: - 9780300116038 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0300116039 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 332.1/753089965Â 22
- HC59.8Â .S55 2010
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| HC59.7 .W659 World development report 1988: | HC59.72.S22 Realising African development | HC59.72.T3S8 2008 Status of poverty reporting in Tanzania | HC59.8 .S55 2010 Credit between cultures : | HC60.C37 Foreign Aid in Africa | HC60.C37 Foreign Aid in Africa | HC60 .C58 Canadian International development Assistance Policies: |
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.
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