Mutualist Microfinance. Informal Savings Funds from the Global Periphery to the Core? Aksant, 2005 - Abram de Swaan

Abram de Swaan & Marcel Van der Linden (Eds)

with contributions by Eric Bähre, Aspha Bijnaar, Abdoulaye Kane, Hotze Lont, Peer Smets
Editor: Aksant, Amsterdam, 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.