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Mutualist Microfinance Informal Savings Funds from the Global Periphery to the Core?

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  • ISBN-13: 9789052601830
  • ISBN: 9052601836
  • Publication Date: 2006
  • Publisher: Aksant Academic Publishers

AUTHOR

De Swaan, Abram, Van Der Linden, Marcel, Swaan, Abram

SUMMARY

This is a comparative, ethnographic, and historical study of mutual funds that flourished in nineteenth-century Europe and North America. Today mutual funds abound in Asia and Africa; they have returned to European and American cities along with immigrants from overseas. The principle is simple: a number of participants each pay a contribution into the fund for as many rounds as there are participants and at each round one player receives the total of contributions paid. Until the time that players receive the lump sum, they are creditors to the fund. From that moment on they become debtors who must be trusted to go on paying their contribution until the end. Usually creditworthiness, prestige, privilege, need, lottery or discounts determine the sequence that the organizer imposes.De Swaan, Abram is the author of 'Mutualist Microfinance Informal Savings Funds from the Global Periphery to the Core?', published 2006 under ISBN 9789052601830 and ISBN 9052601836.

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