TY - BOOK AU - Shipton,Parker MacDonald ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Credit between cultures: farmers, financiers, and misunderstanding in Africa T2 - Yale agrarian studies series AV - HC59.8 .S55 2010eb U1 - 332.1/753089965 22 PY - 2010/// CY - New Haven [Conn.] PB - Yale University Press KW - Economic assistance KW - Africa KW - Poverty KW - Prevention KW - Luo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people) KW - Finance KW - Economic conditions KW - Economics KW - Sociological aspects KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2011; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/welingkar/Doc?id=10579385 ER -