MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2009050979
003 DLC
005 20101222081834.0
008 100108s2010 ctuabf b 001 0 eng
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015 $aGBB056584$2bnb
016 7 $a015541991$2Uk
020 $a9780300116038 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a0300116039 (cloth : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn449853568
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dYDX$dBTCTA$dYDXCP$dUKM$dCDX$dBWX$dSBM$dAGL$dDLC
043 $af------
050 00 $aHC59.8$b.S55 2010
070 0 $aHC59.8$b.S55 2010
082 00 $a332.1/753089965$222
100 1 $aShipton, Parker MacDonald.
245 10 $aCredit between cultures :$bfarmers, financiers, and misunderstanding in Africa /$cParker Shipton.
260 $aNew Haven [Conn.] :$bYale University Press,$cc2010.
300 $axxvii, 335 p., [12] p. of plates :$bill., map ;$c25 cm.
490 1 $aYale agrarian studies series
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [299]-320) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: 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.
650 0 $aEconomic assistance$zAfrica.
650 0 $aPoverty$zAfrica$xPrevention.
650 0 $aLuo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people)$xFinance.
650 0 $aLuo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people)$xEconomic conditions.
650 0 $aEconomics$xSociological aspects.
830 0 $aYale agrarian studies.