MUTUALIST MICROFINANCE

Informal Savings Funds from the Global Periphery to the Core?

Abram de Swaan & Marcel Van der Linden (Eds)

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

Amsterdam: Aksant, 2006, 217 pp.

Contents:
• 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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