| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Contents |
Entrepreneurship -- Liability -- Creditworthiness -- Repayment -- Renewal |
| Summary |
"Microcredit is part of a global trend of financial inclusion that brings banking services, and especially small loans, to the world's poor. While credit for the poor has increasingly come under the rubric of commercial banking, Paraguayan solidarity lending offers a window into the tensions between social development and global finance. There, non-profit development programs offer group loans to women. These highly regulated loans are secured through mutual support and peer pressure--social collateral--rather than through physical collateral. To understand the broader issues of economic interdependency and its regulatory features, Social Collateral tracks collective debt across the commercial society and smuggling economies at the Paraguayan border. The story of social collateral cannot be told without an interwoven story about the feminization of solidarity lending. At its core is an economy of gender--from pink-collar financial work, to men's committees, to hard women smugglers. At stake are interdependencies that bind borrowers and lenders, financial technologies, and Paraguayan development in ways that structure both global inequality and opportunity"--Provided by publisher |
| Analysis |
borrowing and lending |
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business and finance in paraguay |
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economics in paraguay |
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female entrepreneurs |
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feminist business |
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feminization of business |
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feminization of finance |
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feminization of lending |
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financial technology |
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gender studies |
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group loans for women |
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microcredit |
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microfinance |
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microloans |
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pink collar finance |
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small loans |
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social collateral |
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south american commerce |
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woman owned business |
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women in business |
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women in finance |
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women smugglers |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 24, 2020) |
| Subject |
Microfinance -- Paraguay
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Microfinance -- Social aspects -- Paraguay
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Businesswomen -- Paraguay
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Women-owned business enterprises -- Economic aspects -- Paraguay
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Smuggling -- Economic aspects -- Paraguay
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Finance.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Businesswomen
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Microfinance
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Smuggling -- Economic aspects
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Kleinkredit
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Mikrofinanzierung
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Unternehmerin
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Paraguay
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Paraguay
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780520962200 |
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0520962206 |
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