Description |
1 online resource (xxvii, 246 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and color), maps (black and white) |
Contents |
An introduction: ROSCAs as living proof of diverse community economies -- Learning about money cooperatives: the modern juntas in Peru -- Caribbean women’s use of Susu, Partner, Sol, and Boxhand as quiet resistance -- Alajo Shomolu: money, credit, and banking the Nigerian ajo way -- Mother, here is your stone: the story of Susu in Ghana -- Stokvels: a South African innovation in economic justice for women -- Community building and ubuntu: using Osusu in the Kangbeng-Kafoo women’s group in the Gambia -- A quiet resistance: Karen women entrepreneurs leading savings groups in Kanchanaburi Province, Thailand -- Arisan: producing economies of care in Yogyakarta, Indonesia -- Money pools (hụi/họ) in the Mekong Delta: an old way of doing finance in rural Vietnam -- Keralite women’s collective finance in South India: the Kudumbashree movement and indigenous finance -- Conclusion: Indigeneity, politicized consciousness, and lived experience in community economies |
Summary |
People across the globe engage in social and solidarity economics to help themselves, their community, and society on their own terms. 'Community Economies in the Global South' examines how people who conscientiously organize rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAs) bring positive changes to their own lives as well as others. ROSCAs are a long-established and well documented practice, especially those organized by women of colour. Members make regular deposits to a fund as a savings that is then given in whole or in part to each member in turn based on group economics. This book spotlights women in Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia who organize and use these associations, composed of ordinary people belonging to similar class origins who decide jointly on the rules to suit the interests of their members |
Notes |
This edition also issued in print: 2022 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Audience |
Specialized |
Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 07, 2022) |
Subject |
Rotating credit associations -- Developing countries
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Rotating credit associations -- Developing countries -- Case studies
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Savings and loan associations -- Developing countries
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Savings and loan associations -- Developing countries -- Case studies
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Women-owned business enterprises -- Developing countries
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Women-owned business enterprises -- Developing countries -- Case studies
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Rotating credit associations
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Savings and loan associations
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Women-owned business enterprises
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Developing countries
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Genre/Form |
Case studies
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Case studies.
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Études de cas.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Hossein, Caroline Shenaz, 1971- editor.
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Christabell, P. J., editor.
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ISBN |
9780192635068 |
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0192635069 |
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9780191897962 |
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0191897965 |
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9780192635051 |
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0192635050 |
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