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Title Community economies in the Global South : case studies of rotating savings credit associations and economic cooperation / edited by Caroline Shenaz Hossein and P.J. Christabell
Edition First edition
Published Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2022
©2022

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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
Rotating credit associations -- Developing countries -- Case studies
Savings and loan associations -- Developing countries
Savings and loan associations -- Developing countries -- Case studies
Women-owned business enterprises -- Developing countries
Women-owned business enterprises -- Developing countries -- Case studies
Rotating credit associations
Savings and loan associations
Women-owned business enterprises
Developing countries
Genre/Form Case studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Form Electronic book
Author Hossein, Caroline Shenaz, 1971- editor.
Christabell, P. J., editor.
ISBN 9780192635068
0192635069
9780191897962
0191897965
9780192635051
0192635050
Other Titles Case studies of rotating savings credit associations and economic cooperation
Case studies of rotating savings and credit associations and economic cooperation