Credit Between Cultures: Farmers, Financiers, and Misunderstanding in Africa

by Parker MacDonald Shipton and Parker Shipton

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300181280
• ISBN13: 9780300181289
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"