Informal finance in low-income countries

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Informal finance in low-income countries

edited by Dale W. Adams and Delbert A. Fitchett

Westview Press, 1992

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Invisible to official statistics and operating outside the reach of governmental regulation, informal finance markets often prove more efficient and more fair than their formal counterparts. The authors of these studies emphasize the diversity and richness of informal credit markets.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction, Dale W. Adams and Delbert A. Fitchert
  • taking a fresh look at informal finance, D.W. Adams
  • the rope and the box - group savings in The Gambia, Parker Shipton
  • informal finance groups in Cameroon, Gertrud R. Schreider and Carlos E. Cuevas
  • rural finance in Somalia, Virginia DeLancey
  • informal finance in Niger - lessons for building form institutions, Douglas H. Graham
  • informal finance in Sri Lanka, Nimal Sanderatne
  • informal rural finance in Thailand, Tongroj Onchan
  • informal finance in Papua New Guinea - an overview, Nimal Fernando
  • informal finance in the Philippines footwear industry, Mario B. Lamberte
  • collateral substituted in rural informal financial markets in the Philippines, Emmanuel F. Esquerra and Richard L. Meyer
  • the Kou in Japan - a precursor of modern finance, Yoichi Izumida
  • pawn-broking and small loans - cases from India and Sri Lanka, F.J.A. Bouman and R. Bastiaanssen
  • strengths of informal financial institutions - examples from India, C.P.S. Nayar
  • informal finance in Indonesia, F.J.A. Bouman and H.A.J. Moll
  • evolving forms of informal finance in an Indonesian town, Otto Hospes
  • linking formal and informal finance - an Indonesian example, Hans Dieter Seibel and Uben Parhusip
  • the financial evolution of small businesses in Indonesia, Ross H. McLeod
  • small-scale enterprise dynamics and the evolving role of informal finance, Carl Leidholm
  • formal credit for informal borrowers - lessons from informal lenders, Robert P. Christen
  • regulatory avoidance in informal financial markets, Robert C. Vogel and Robert Wieland
  • contract lending to small farmers in the Dominican Republic, Jerry R. Ladman, et al
  • rotating savings and credit associations in Bolivia, D.W. Adams and Marie L. Canavesi
  • ROSCAs - state-of-the-art financial intermediation, J.D. Von Pischke
  • what have we learned about informal finance in three decades?, U. Tun Wai
  • where to from here in informal finance?, Dale W. Adams and P.B. Ghate.

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