Mutualist Microfinance

Informal Savings Funds from the Global Periphery to the Core?

Amsterdam: Aksant, 2006, 217 pp.

Abram de Swaan & Marcel Van der Linden (Eds)

with contributions by
Eric Bähre, Aspha Bijnaar, Abdoulaye Kane, Hotze Lont, Peer Smets and the editors

Abram de Swaan: Mutual Funds: Then and here, now and there.
Informal savings and insurance funds in the nineteenth-century West and the present non-western world

Erik Bähre: Changing interdependencies and the State.
How financial mutuals have changed in South Africa

Aspha Bijnaar: As ye sow, so shall ye reap! Kasmoni in Suriname

Abdoulaye Kane: Tontines and village cash boxes along the Thilonge-Dakar–Paris emigration route

Hotze Lont: Social security in financial self-help organizations. An Indonesian example

Peer Smets: Changing financial mutuals in urban India.
Practice, functions, trust and development trajectories.

Marcel van der Linden: Varieties of Mutualism

 

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