Borrowing Together
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Borrowing Together
Microfinance and Cultivating Social Ties
Hsu, Becky (Georgetown University, Washington DC)
Cambridge University Press
11/2017
186
Dura
Inglês
9781108420525
15 a 20 dias
This book will appeal to sociologists and students interested in global development, culture, political economy, nonprofits, and transnational processes. This is important fieldwork on both the relations between international NGOs in rural China and the state, as well as how villagers respond to foreign organizations that provide social services.
List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgments; 1. Group lending, social ties, and a pragmatist theory of microfinance; 2. Microfinance in China: history, influences, and program efforts; 3. Credit and favor: the effect of social influence on repayment and default; 4. Repaying a friend: making the self and the impossible default; 5. The social cost of sanctions: why borrowers avoided making others lose face; 6. Personhood, microfinance, and a new proposition for the sociology of development; Appendix: fieldwork methodology; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.
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This book will appeal to sociologists and students interested in global development, culture, political economy, nonprofits, and transnational processes. This is important fieldwork on both the relations between international NGOs in rural China and the state, as well as how villagers respond to foreign organizations that provide social services.
List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgments; 1. Group lending, social ties, and a pragmatist theory of microfinance; 2. Microfinance in China: history, influences, and program efforts; 3. Credit and favor: the effect of social influence on repayment and default; 4. Repaying a friend: making the self and the impossible default; 5. The social cost of sanctions: why borrowers avoided making others lose face; 6. Personhood, microfinance, and a new proposition for the sociology of development; Appendix: fieldwork methodology; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.
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